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I have one more year left before I’m officially a mother of a house filled with teenagers. Kainoa is my last anchor to “Big Kid Land.” He recently asked me if he repeated Kindergarten because he has realized that he’s a year older than most of the kids in his class.
“No, you didn’t repeat Kindergarten…I held you back so that you would wait to START Kindergarten for an extra year.”
Some families call it “redshirting” Kindergartners because so many people do it for the purpose of allowing their child to have extra time to get good at and dominate whatever sport they are vying to be all-stars in.
Not me.
I held Kainoa back because:
1. He cried every time I left him at preschool and that was just a few hours a day 2-3 days a week.
2. He still took great naps for me.
3. He would not be able to sit still for his teacher.
4. He was not interested in following directions.
5. He did not like school. I was gifting him one extra year of freedom!
Except now that he’s IN school he feels like he could be a year closer to graduating by heading into 7th grade instead of 6th. Maybe he should have thought of that and pulled his act together when I didn’t think he was mature enough to handle Kindergarten at five years old.
So sixth grade it is for my now 12-year-old and we’ll see if we can also turn him into an all-star athlete and really squeeze that redshirt year for all it was worth. I will enjoy my last year as a mom to big kids and I have one solid year to prep myself for a house of horrors. I mean teenagers.
My babies are growing up!
Happy 12th birthday Kainoa!
Happy Birthday Kainoa!
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Traci says
Both of my boys were redshirted. I’m a special educator and noticed a trend with the boys on my caseload. Many of them had summer birthdays. My boys were born in June and July so I decided to hold them back a year.
My oldest is now 16 and going into his sophomore year of high school. He has almost enough credit hours to classify himself as a junior but he doesn’t want to try to push it so that he could graduate in 3 years. He wants to stay in our house for as long as possible so he can mooch on us.
My youngest is 14 and going into 8th grade. He’s on the small size so he doesn’t look like he is ready to go into high school. He needs that extra year to mature some more.
Mama Kat says
I feel the same way, that extra year provided some much needed time to mature!
John Holton says
Happy birthday to Kainoa, first of all.
Mom didn’t redshirt either of my brothers. In fact, she pushed them ahead, Jim anyway. He was born in December and Kip (his Irish twin) was born the following November. At the time, the cutoff was December 1: You had to be 5 before December 1 to go into kindergarten or you waited another year, which would have put both of them in the same class. Mom could have held both of them back a year, of course, but she was determined that Jim would start early (that was Mom for you). Everything worked out in the end…
Mama Kat says
My mom pushed us into Kindergarten as soon as possible too, I don’t think holding kids back was an option she cared to entertain. lol!
Krystyn says
Happy birthday!
Abby says
Happy birthday to Redshirt boy! My middle son has a July birthday, and I considered “redshirting” him. But he seemed so eager to go to school and follow his big brother, so fine.
Kainoa might be thinking how he’d be done with school a year earlier, but he would also be one of the last of his friends to get a driver’s license – the hardship!
And happy teen momming to you. We have all boys, I’m wondering how having girls in the mix will be for you.
Kat says
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