While the answers have been mixed, I’ve found that most people who hold their kids back are happy that they did so. Most people would red-shirt.” She was referring, of course, to the common practice of delaying kindergarten entry by a year.Īs we live in the age of too much information, and as I have way too much time on my hands as your reluctant stay-at-home suburban mom, I’ve spent the last two years asking almost every parent I meet in town if their kids have a late birthday, and if they’ve held them. “But the Connecticut cutoff is January 1st, and his birthday is over four months before that?” “Everyone here holds back, especially the boys,” she said, nonchalantly. “What do you mean?” I replied, watching 2-year-old you scoop up some sand, eat a little, and throw the rest at your classmate. Standing on the playground at your new preschool, I was asked by a mom named Suzy what I thought I was “doing” with you for kindergarten. It all began when we moved from New York City to a desirable coastal Connecticut suburb. Due in August.īut here we are, almost 5 years later, and I am beset with anxiety over your August birthday. Told your father to drink a Diet Coke (caffeine makes the boys swim faster, so they say). Timed my cycle to the date of peak boy creation. In fact, I traveled to many far-out corners of the Internet to find advice on how to conceive a boy: I ate salty foods and the ends of bread loaves. We just really wanted a second kid we were hoping for a son. In fact, we were so unaware of ones birthday being the indicator of future success in school, sports and life in general that we didn’t even pay attention to what month it was. I had no idea delivering a boy in August would lead to such angst. We just wanted a family - 2 kids, a girl and a boy. I just wanted to take a moment to apologize on behalf of your father and I for having the foolish impulse to conceive you in November.
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