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My older DS is summer birthday. We didn't hold him back and still he was bored to death until he got another year of acceleration later on. If your child is advanced, I would suggest not to hold him back. You will be surprised to see how many of the social issues disappear, when the child is intellectually stimulated. Best luck!

I am not pro-acceleration at all as I declined it for DS11 back in 2nd grade. However, it seems obscene to me to actually hold back a kid that will turn 5 three months before what is arguably an early (but increasingly common) cutoff of September. There is an advantage of dealing with social problems earlier rather than later. Interestingly, that is one of the arguments in favor of preschool and pre-k at least from some teachers' perspective in dealing with K students.

My goodness I hope so or my entire family is in trouble, and we're all quite conscientious and responsible otherwise.




Ahem.



DD is another summer baby, as were both of her parents-- take the 'free' acceleration and RUN.