I Wish We Had Waited To Start Kindergarten

Red-shirting is controversial, but I would like to have known we had that choice.

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Walking my bright and bubbly five-year-old to her first day of kindergarten isn’t something I ever thought I would regret. I was emotional and nostalgic, of course, but I was also hopeful and excited for her newfound freedom — and my own. Of all of the…