42: Kindergarten Redshirting

Published: April 24, 2016, 10 a.m.

Many parents opt to "redshirt" or\xa0delay their child's entrance into kindergarten. This practice is generally seen as beneficial to a child's success in school, but how does it impact their overall happiness later in life? In this episode, I interview Dr. Suzanne Jones, who studied the perceived life satisfaction of adolescent boys who were redshirted at kindergarten compared with those who could have been, but were not.\xa0