I am also telling myself that, because we plan to homeschool, our kids won't be as tied to rigid ideas of age stratification.
My brother and I are three years apart, but because he had a late birthday and I skipped a grade he was just one grade ahead of me. I think we felt pretty close in age - we played together a lot - but if I imagine us as, say, a sixth-grader and a third-grader (instead of a sixth-grader and a fifth-grader) it seems like we'd be a lot further apart. The grade system makes a big difference.
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Date: 2008-02-05 09:40 pm (UTC)My brother and I are three years apart, but because he had a late birthday and I skipped a grade he was just one grade ahead of me. I think we felt pretty close in age - we played together a lot - but if I imagine us as, say, a sixth-grader and a third-grader (instead of a sixth-grader and a fifth-grader) it seems like we'd be a lot further apart. The grade system makes a big difference.