My nine-year-old competes at a moderate level in an entirely non-gymnastic sport where I recently heard a parent shouting at their seven-year-old because he was playing around with his friends in between races and - this is a direct quote - "you're not here to have fun, you're here to win". I have told various people inside and outside the sport that if I ever start behaving like that they have permission to punch me.
Same scenario for my summer birthday kid! So baffling!
In England certainly the birth dates run 1st September to 31st August and children start school at 4. So this September you’ll have children born August 2021 starting school. If your child is a July or August birthday, you have the right to wait until the following year. However if they are born in June or earlier, you don’t have the automatic right to skip and it can usually only be done under recommendation from a medical or educational professional. It’s not very common though, and I’ve never known it to be done for sporting reasons, it’s almost always for social and developmental reasons
Pretty much--you hear it mostly with boys with summer birthdays, who meet the age cutoff but parents hold them back a year before starting them in school. The logic for it is usually that boys mature more slowly than girls, or that that particular boy isn't mature enough to start school yet (wouldn't be able to sit still in class, etc). There's also the position that if you hold a boy back, so he's the oldest in his class instead of the youngest, he'll have a better time in high school sports.
My nephew is 8, plays soccer year round on all kinds of teams, even when he was hitting his father on the sideline. Parents think he’s heading to MLS to make millions and buy them a mansion. Kid is more likely to end up in juvenile court due to lack of parenting. They couldn’t come to my sons birthday bc of soccer.
