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We see it too. To a certain extent. It's MUCH more obvious with boys. Thor is young for his grade and his hockey team (Oct Birthday -grade cut-off is December here). Hector is middling for grades, good for hockey and perfect for Swimming (April Birthday -USA swimming ages you up on the first day of each meet -including the year-end championships which are in March. So You make state cuts, and have a March 1 birthday and age up, you're fucked.
Hebe has a Dec birthday and suffers from this with USA swimming, but suffers more from being a later developer/short. Most of the girls in her age group have a good 6-12 inches on her, and she's nearing the top of the age group. Put her in the pool with the same-sized girls of any age and she'll thrash them. As they all reach maturity, her practice and skill will win out, but it would be frustrating right now if we were less low-key.
In school, she's up a grade and is tiny among her peers, but holds her own socially and academically, and on the soccer field (where it goes by grade not birth year because it's Rec and Ed)
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