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• Strollerderby Playdate: Redshirting

  Redshirting - aka Keeping Your Kid In Preschool An Extra Year So He Will Be The Biggest, Baddest Superstar In Kindergarten History - is a big topic around my house.  My sister - who, with her husband and two boys, lives with me and my family - is currently considering whether she should hold back her oldest son, whose birthday is August 31, one day before our district's September 1 cutoff.  And apparently, she's not the only one invested in this debate.  My friend Lauren sent me a link to a Babycenter discussion board she participates in that includes almost 600 posts about the advantages and disadvantages of redshirting.   So I was really interested in this thoughtful post about redshirting by Alice Bradley on Alpha Mom.   Read More... Posted Feb 21 2008, 07:02 AM by Amy S.F. Lutz with | with 13 comment(s) Filed under: preschool, kindergarten, Alpha Mom, Alice Bradley, redshirting

• Strollerderby Playdate: Screwed Up Bad? You're Not Alone

  The list of things that make me nuts is long and comprehensive, but near the top is smug hubris-filled jackholes who think their way is the only way and that we actually want or need to listen to their advice. And ooohhhhh does the parenting corner of the Internet attract those people. Posting anything, anything at all on the Internet about your own parenting is a really good way to get told you're a horrible person who should have never had kids. And those are the nice commenters — anyone who's kept a blog or been on a message board has probably been the focus of a poorly spelled screed using insults like "stuped ideot". Because getting called a name by someone who can’t spell really hits a writer where they live.   Read More... Posted Jan 11 2008, 11:17 AM by Amy Kuras with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: parenting advice, Strollerderby playdates, finslippy, horror stories, Alice Bradley