Is this a good deal? Can I do better someplace else? Does furniture from Pottery Barn have a rep?
All I know for sure is that I've coveted those chairs for. ev. ah.
Matt, could you hook me up with those links too?
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I was a youngest-in-class kid. It's hard to say if I'd have been better off socially (I was fine academically) if we'd waited since going to five schools in five years did a number on me socially. It might have helped.
OTOH, I was going absolutely bug-fuck bonks being at home and reaaaaallllly wanted to start school so keeping me at home would have been a little insane.
Either way I'd have sucked at sports.
Aims, I know lots of folks (including me) who started college at 17.
I personally could have benefitted from a year off doing something before diving into uni.
NBD until senior year--if everyone else is 21 and you're not its a PITA.
As ita ! says, you can avoid this by CANADA. And also save about a gazillion dollars if current state holds.
NBD until senior year--if everyone else is 21 and you're not its a PITA.
As ita ! says, you can avoid this by CANADA. And also save about a gazillion dollars if current state holds.
It's no fun being the only one who can't drink in first year either. Well, drinking wasn't the problem, getting into bars was.
If that's the concern, go to Northwestern. At least when I was there none of the Evanston bars bothered to card.
But explain Keith Richards to me.
Dark magic.
As Steven Tyler said, roughly, "drugs were ruined by all the kids doing them. Leave it to the professionals!"
explain Keith Richards to me.
He makes regular trips to a clinic in Switzerland to get his blood replaced. I read it on the Internet.
Emmett and Matilda are both September birthday (which is going to be the new cutoff in California), and I pushed them ahead.
It was never an issue with Emmett. A little bit of an issue with Matilda because she really wasn't reading until the very end of her first grade year, and a lot of her peers were already reading. But she did fine academically, and she's more than fine socially.
She is the smallest girl on her soccer team, though.
Both will start college at 17, but turn 18 within a few weeks.
From a baseball recruiting perspective, it's recently been shown to be advantageous that Emmett will be playing his entire year as a 17 y.o. senior. A year makes a huge difference in physical development for HS athletes and some kids are 19 y.o. seniors. They put up good numbers in HS but they don't develop as well, with very few of them becoming elite players.
The last time I looked at the research, the academic advantages of holding back disappear by third grade, and overall it's better to put your kid in a more stimulating environment earlier.
Of course, every kid is different and there are a number of excellent reasons for holding back for a year.
But explain Keith Richards to me.
"That which does not kill us makes us stronger." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I just realized I've had my tagline for a while. I think I need to do a little spring cleaning there.
