This 60 minutes interview I watched was on whether you should send your child to Kindergarten at the age of five or wait until they are six. If your child has a late birthday, people are saying that you should wait until they turn six, which is called redshirting.
There were two sides to this story, one side being that if they are five in Kindergarten, the child may not be ready to take on that learning experience, or they would be the youngest in their class among many other reasons. The other side was that if you waited to send your child to Kindergarten, they could get bored in their classes and are more likely to drop out.
The reason I chose this video was because I was in the exact same situation. My birthday is in September, only four days before the cutoff date for sending your child to Kindergarten.
My mom asked my preschool teachers for their advice and they told her to go ahead and send me. I was five when I started Kindergarten and yes, I was the youngest in my class.
I still am the youngest and sure, I may not be able to get my license until I am a senior, but it does not really bother me.
I am glad my parents went ahead and sent me because for one, I cannot stand the eighth graders at the middle school I went to and second, I get good grades and I am doing perfectly fine.
I know there are so many people out there with fall birthdays in this same predicament, not knowing what to do with their young children. I am thrilled that there is an interview about it discussing people’s different perspectives on how they look at this situation.
If you want to know more or would just like to watch this interesting video, click here
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7400898n&tag=contentBody;storyMediaBox
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