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It won’t be surprising that this post is about kindergarten, and truthfully, I am not sure I have anything new to add to this topic. But here I am, a mama to a boy with a July birthday who is just trying to make the best decision possible with the information I have at my disposal. Every child […]

Hi Hive! It’s been a while since I updated you on our lives. A fuller Tiger-Family-Catchup is in the works, but thought I’d first talk about our decision to do the opposite of red-shirting. K is in 1st grade now, and rocking it! His birthday is just after our district’s cutoff (September 1st), and falls […]

As I’ve written about previously, Big P has a summer birthday (he turns 4 in July), which leads us to the question of when to start him in kindergarten. Even last year, it felt like we’d spent a lot of time thinking about whether we’d hold him back or not. Now, with another year of preschool […]

Little Cotton Candy was born in November 2012, meaning he is a couple months past the cutoff for starting kindergarten this fall. Because he started preschool in the fall of 2015, this means he will have three full years of preschool before entering kindergarten. (Side note: Looks like baby #2 will be following in his […]

I guess I’m behind the times because I didn’t really even know this was a term used to denote kids who are kept back in school for a year for one reason or another. A few weeks ago Scallop’s preschool teacher called us in to talk about keeping him back in preschool for another year. […]

Big P has a summer birthday. He’s also a boy. Both of which have led to the inevitable question, “will you hold him back from starting kindergarten?” Although we have some time before we actually make this decision, it’s been on my mind lately, and it has a surprising impact on our lives right now. […]

In most of the United States, the birthday cutoff for kindergarten is October 1st, September 1st, or even earlier, but in New York City the cutoff is December 31st. Charlie was born in December, and many parents in our neighborhood would choose to redshirt a boy born so late in the year. In his popular […]