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One of the best suggestions on dealing with this academic discrepancy is having boys take one more year in kindergarten, so that they are one year older than th
by PartiallyTyped 3y ago
One of the best suggestions on dealing with this academic discrepancy is having boys take one more year in kindergarten, so that they are one year older than the girls in their grade / year.
I'd take this one step further, and claim - from anecdata - that kids should be in quarters, and defer middle school until 6*4 or 7*4 quarters have been reached for girls and boys respectively.
My class in highschool, mostly people who ended up mathematicians, doctors, etc, most of us were born in the first quarter of the year. Do take with a large grain of salt as a) it's been 10 years, and b) this is likely biased bc of the book "outliers".
- w0m 3y ago> having boys take one more year in kindergarten Functionally doing this with both of my children (though not repeating curriculum) after lots of debating and stress. Adding the expectation into the child's head of being "One of the Smart Ones" seems incredibly powerful moving forward.
- PartiallyTyped 3y agoI know that this is unsolicited advice, but be careful when putting such expectations to children. I know that it has caused me a lot of trouble and many regrets, mostly those of inadequacy even though in retrospect, my environment didn't enable me to flourish.
- w0m 3y agore: unsolicited advice - PLEASE man parenting No manual entry for parenting We've read a number of books; but our plan has pretty much broken down to * try and not do what our parents did to annoy us as children * give them every support and opportunity we can * Don't let them be assholes