"Fighting" for your kid

One day, I hope Mac will thank me for the "fighting" I am doing for him right now. It feels like a fight anyway. I am in the middle of trying to figure out what is the best way for Mac to move along his educational path. I am very determined that he should wait to start kindergarten until he is 6. Not because I think he won't be able to handle it academically or socially, but because, simply put, I don't want him to be the very youngest kid in his class!!!! I would much rather him be the oldest. I will figure out, later, how to handle the stress of him being the first one driving in his class and the first one to turn 21. I just don't want him to have to go through the stigma of being the last one to get his license or turn 21. God forbid, he be the youngest in his group of friends who turns 21, and he gets a fake ID. God forbid he get caught and/or arrested for it. That would be on his record forever!.........I realize I am making a big leap from kindergarten to the sports bar, but I HAVE to start thinking of these things now. Why? Because I am trying to figure out how to "sequence" his educaiton. Should I hold him in his 3's class which is only 2 or 3 days a week; put him in the Pre-K class which is 5 days a week and then hold him back and repeat it another year; or put him in Pre-K then on to Kindergarten ( Where I just learned per a conversation with the St. Johns County Public Schools that it is not up to ME as his Mom if he should repeat Kindergarten, rather it will be a Team decision.) OY! Knowing Mac, he will pass K'garten with flying colors and then be sent onto 1st as the youngest in his class!! Then all my worry and toil will be for naught. I am leaning toward the "repeat Pre-K" option and just pay the difference. (I won't get into the financials. It is a big cluster-bleep) ...Now, if I can just figure out how to convince Nathan that he should wait until he is 6 for K'garten...That will be the next fight! :) Thank God we had Eli in January. I don't have to have this inner-turmoil again! BTW, Happy B'day Eli (tomorrow). Love you both!