Thinking of Holding Your Kid Back a Grade?

“Redshirting” or delaying enrolling your child into Kinder (or 1st grade if you chose to skip Kinder) and keeping your child back a year is a question I get asked about frequently. There’s a lot of anxiety and stress about the decision to redshirt or not red shirt, and to be honest there’s a whole bunch of controversy and drama about it too. So I figured I’d go ahead and chat about it in this week’s Mudroom. I get asked a lot about it because I made the decision to red-shirt my oldest son, which I’ve openly talked about before. He’s currently getting ready to step into the exciting world of being a 3rd grader but would have been going into 4th grade. And I didn’t make that decision lightly. There’s a whole bunch of reasons why you might choose to hold your child back a grade and a whole bunch of reasons why you might decide against it. In this episode I’m not going to try and convince you to do one or the other. But I will share my experience and reasons for red-shirting my oldest and some things you might want to consider when making a decision of your own. BTW- If you are thinking this over, know that there are tons of factors that come into play with this decision, including what you’re legally allowed to do. I’m not throwing out any legal advice whatsoever (so, please for the love of everything good don’t take it as legal advice) but I will also share the general steps I took to make sure I didn’t land myself in any trouble. Cause I know finding the information can be a little overwhelming. Grab the Scripts to Manage the Top 10 Crazy-Making Behaviours: prnt.link/scripts Watch the video recording here: Join the Parenting Posse: prnt.link/group the Mudroom is recorded live every Wednesday at 1:30pm ET/ 12:30pm CT/ 10:30am PT on Facebook: facebook.com/arfamilyservices