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@Bao: my daughter will be the youngest in her class as her birthday is the cutoff day. I am not really worried about it yet. I honestly think age has little to do with it.she is very good at following directions in a school setting and I think that is key.

Not really. I'm more worried about my oldest being the oldest in her class and being bored.

Not really. I am a Nov baby so pretty young too.

It will be interesting to watch them grow as my next baby will be the oldest of her class (if she doesn't come early)

@oliviaoblivia: DS is the oldest and he has done wonderful! After the first few weeks they moved him into the advanced reading and math groups so he was never bored - they constantly challenged him - hopefully your school will do the same!

DD1 has a June birthday, so she will be in the middle of the pack age-wise as she goes into public pre-k. At private school, she basically the youngest in her class (I think 1-2 girls were the same week/a week after her) of kids who were 3 & 4 turning 4 & 5. So at the beginning of the year, she was about 3 years/3 months and some of her classmates were about to turn 5! Most were at least already 4.

It was a little disheartening at times to see that she didn't really interact as much as the bigger kids did, and to see kids writing whole words/sentences when she couldn't even identify letters....but do you know what? The past few weeks, about a month after turning 4, she chose to reveal to me that she herself can now write entire words/phrases, especially if I help her by saying the letters. So I think that being with the big kids actually quietly pushed her to learn more/try things that she might not have felt motivated to do surrounded by younger children.

I'm more worried about the social aspect. We have an August 31st cutoff and her birthday is at the end of August. She's still years away from kindergarten, so it's hard to say how I'll feel then.