Dr. Karen Wilson

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 192a: Dr. Karen Wilson on How to Know if Your Child is Ready for Elementary School · 11 Apr 2025 podcast

absolutely and if you think about the social emotional learning that takes place in preschool you know learning to share and learning to establish friendships I mean I think that is just as important if not more important than holding a pencil and being able to write your name because those are skills that you're going to need for life and if you can start developing them early you're

the better off you are later on.

Right?

I think that whole idea is so debatable.

And

you know, people and what you're talking about is really delaying school entry.

And it's often referred to as red shirting.

And parents of kids who aren't differently wired often do this for an academic or physical edge, right?

But parents who have kids who are wired differently and are demonstrating some delays in some areas of functioning often do this to give kids the gift of time, right?

To give their brains another year

to develop those skills, or to give people who are working on those interventions time to help those kids develop those skills.

So it's really an individual decision.

I will say that kids with ADHD who have been given that label are redshirted more than kids who do not have that label.

And boys are redshirted more than girls.

And so when people are making decisions to delay school entry, boys are more likely to

parents of boys are more likely to delay school entry.

And what the research actually shows is that early on, the kids can do better in kindergarten, but in the long term, it doesn't really make that big of a difference.

And when those kids reach adolescence, if they're older in the classroom, they actually end up having more struggles later on.

And again, that's on average.

There will always be kids where that holding them back and delaying school entry works beautifully for them.

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