Up until recently, I had been feeling like I really messed up not sending Kaitlyn to preschool last September.   I kept running across blog posts from other Moms of four year old girls, and their kids were writing their names and coloring pictures of people and houses and flowers, and since Kaitlyn isn’t yet doing either of those things, I was feeling like a failure.

Even though she wasn’t fully potty trained at all last September which was our deciding factor in not sending her to school, and even though she CAN do a whole lot of pretty smart things now (including taking herself to the bathroom, FINALLY), I was doubting myself.

But then over the last couple of days, Kaitlyn and I met some little girls who were exactly her size, who she instantly wanted to play with, who she just clicked with. Twice at the library and then again at the Sprint store, I sidled up to the other Moms and after telling them how cute their daughters were, asked innocently, “how old is she?”

In every single case, the other little girl was three. I don’t realize how petite Kaitlyn is until I see that she is the exact same size  as other three year olds.   So now I’m thinking it would have been a mistake to assume she was ready for kindergarten this Fall, I think it’s perfectly fine for her to start preschool this Fall at four, and turn five. Then go to kindergarten at five and turn six.

Right?

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