May 17, 2022·edited May 17, 2022Liked by Amy Sukwan
Ah, Amy, you come by this writing thing from within and without, I see. What a great window into your families life! Tom Petty had it right....the waiting....is the hardest part. One of Malcolm Gladwells books (Outliers?) discusses how the way we group kids into basically 2 age groups as we push them through school, and this causes the kids who are a bit smaller or developing more slowly to get pushed out of sports and high achievement by the kids are are just a bit bigger and better developed. One solution he presented would be to divide school age kids into say 4 groups per year, instead of 2, and we would reap many benefits as a society. Power to your grandparents for giving your dad Craig an extra year of kindergarden as well, it makes no sense to push a kid through school at the early end. I was sent off a year early for the convenience of the system and my working mother, and was forever a bit 'behind' developmentally in school, esp. emotionally. Like a game being played I could not yet fathom. We push push push and wonder why kids reach a breaking / failure point. But then, the schools weren't really developed for the kids....but thats another story, eh?
Ah, Amy, you come by this writing thing from within and without, I see. What a great window into your families life! Tom Petty had it right....the waiting....is the hardest part. One of Malcolm Gladwells books (Outliers?) discusses how the way we group kids into basically 2 age groups as we push them through school, and this causes the kids who are a bit smaller or developing more slowly to get pushed out of sports and high achievement by the kids are are just a bit bigger and better developed. One solution he presented would be to divide school age kids into say 4 groups per year, instead of 2, and we would reap many benefits as a society. Power to your grandparents for giving your dad Craig an extra year of kindergarden as well, it makes no sense to push a kid through school at the early end. I was sent off a year early for the convenience of the system and my working mother, and was forever a bit 'behind' developmentally in school, esp. emotionally. Like a game being played I could not yet fathom. We push push push and wonder why kids reach a breaking / failure point. But then, the schools weren't really developed for the kids....but thats another story, eh?