My LD son failed freshman year

blueberriesforsal
Sat, 08 Apr 2023 22:32:53 +0000

MrsH1234:

I think he’s worried about getting behind his peers. How do I help him understand that’s not a thing?

K-12 is the only time in our lives we are sorted into groups by our birthday. In college that band is a little more elastic, but drop into a university or CCs and there are loads of folks of all different ages in the classrooms.

“Getting behind his peers” is a normal fear because it’s logically based on his own context of the world of K-12 and being sorted his entire life by how old he is; having a job in an office or a shop or on a boat or where have you, going to the grocery store, i.e. entering the world of adults…that sense will change, he just hasn’t been part of that world just yet.

When I was his age, my friends were just my age. I’m Turing 50 this year, and I now have friends (and peers) in their 30s-60s. It will shift for him too!