Summer born children
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Re: Summer born children
One of my boys (and thus both of them as they all play together when he comes round) has a friend who is already over 6ft tall with size 15 feet. He is only just 12! Poor lad. As you say, extremes of any kind are tough from one way or another, but suspect you have the easier years coming up soon, now height becomes a positive benefit. At least people don't pat him on the head and call him 'cute'. AAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!
On the good side, both dh and I are from long family lines of Hobbits, and we seem to have done OK so far!
On the good side, both dh and I are from long family lines of Hobbits, and we seem to have done OK so far!
Re: Summer born children
Reminds me of my brother who was like this in the 1980s - my mum dispaired as she was buying him new shoes every 3 months until they stabilised at size 14. The trickiest was getting field athletics shoes as he "Threw the Hammer" ending up as junior Welsh champion. Mum was most relieved when he decided to concentrate on rugby instead.Yamin151 wrote:One of my boys (and thus both of them as they all play together when he comes round) has a friend who is already over 6ft tall with size 15 feet. He is only just 12! Poor lad. As you say, extremes of any kind are tough from one way or another, but suspect you have the easier years coming up soon, now height becomes a positive benefit. At least people don't pat him on the head and call him 'cute'. AAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!
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Can I gently put the case that sometimes life is difficult for the older ones in the year too.
DD is November born and has always been friends with the year above her throughout primary. Now Y7, she sits with all the Y8's and 9's on the bus simply because she gets on better with them than the y7's. She is physically mature (5ft 8 , size 12 etc) and sometimes mentally so ! There are some girls in her year similar but the majority are a lot smaller and I genuinely think at the moment this does create a type of barrier as she is viewed as more grown up and indeed many call her 'mother' ( somewhat weird ).
Strangely enough none of the size or maturity issues effected my now Y10 6ft 3 DS who has always been the tallest throughout school.
It's not that she doesn't like her peer group or thinks them immature, it just seems the year above is a better fit socially and always has been. I guess in part this reinforces the gap between summer born and autumn children but equally as she is over a year younger than some of her Y8 friends just shows that they are all different.
Personally I wish there was more flexibility on what year group they could start primary but for the opposite way. I realise this may call forward howls of protest but I would have definitely asked for her to Start school a year earlier. Academically this would undoubtedly have put her more middle of the road than she is now but socially she would have been much happier.
DD is November born and has always been friends with the year above her throughout primary. Now Y7, she sits with all the Y8's and 9's on the bus simply because she gets on better with them than the y7's. She is physically mature (5ft 8 , size 12 etc) and sometimes mentally so ! There are some girls in her year similar but the majority are a lot smaller and I genuinely think at the moment this does create a type of barrier as she is viewed as more grown up and indeed many call her 'mother' ( somewhat weird ).
Strangely enough none of the size or maturity issues effected my now Y10 6ft 3 DS who has always been the tallest throughout school.
It's not that she doesn't like her peer group or thinks them immature, it just seems the year above is a better fit socially and always has been. I guess in part this reinforces the gap between summer born and autumn children but equally as she is over a year younger than some of her Y8 friends just shows that they are all different.
Personally I wish there was more flexibility on what year group they could start primary but for the opposite way. I realise this may call forward howls of protest but I would have definitely asked for her to Start school a year earlier. Academically this would undoubtedly have put her more middle of the road than she is now but socially she would have been much happier.
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Re: Summer born children
Think it is brilliant that parents will now have the choice as to whether their child starts school at four or delays a year but still goes in at reception. Choice is the key, no one knows a child like their parents. My 2 girls are both August birthdays and to top it all were both a month premature so ended up a school year ahead of where they should have been. The youngest one was absolutely fine from day one. The oldest one really struggled with school despite having been used to long nursery days from 8.30 'til 5.00. The first half term was so awful I almost sent her back to nursery! However, it did get better and she settled by the end of the first term. It was noticeable through primary though that her friends were all the summer babies too, unlike my youngest whose friends are well spread out birthday wise. Like I said, depends very much on each individual child and the choice should be down to the parents.
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You could be talking about my Dd. Same thing, we had a very slow start, the light switched on in year 4 and there has been no turning back, now she is doing better that most of her peers who are at the other end of the year she is a very end of July birthday. Like Dolly's daughter once she put her foot on the pedal she took off like a rocket. The main problem initially was that she was simply not emotionally developed enough to cope with things like lunch and break times and assemblies (it was the large groups that gave her difficulty.) I think the not being ready to be away from Mummy for a whole day meant that she shouldn't cope with the academia at the same time.Dollydripmat wrote:My eldest is a summer born (very end of august) now currently in Y6. During her time at infant school we did struggle, learning was slow, no matter how much we tried to support her at home, she was just too young. We did our best. When she moved to juniors she flourished , it was a light switch moment, she was ready to learn, her learning accelerated at a very fast pace (we did extra maths at home only to consolidate , other than weekly spellings and reading we did not do any extra English at home). She has just taken level 6 maths and English sats this week. We see no difference at all academically . Up until a few months ago she lacked self confidence , I think she has just gone through another stage of maturity and seems to have overcome that. We talk a lot, which I think has definitely helped. Just my experience of my summer born dollyxxxx