Not sure what the deal with the NYTimes is--is it a news paper, a blog site, or a cultural documentation resource center? Didn't live in NYC as a kid, so I am not sure if they have always published 'cultural trend' pieces that try to explain sociological + generational trends, or if this is just like a modern traffic hoarding technique, like a 'smoke and mirrors' form of a photogallery. Anyways, it seems like after their hit article about 'twenty-somethings' who are in no hurry to grow up, they decided to take it to a new extreme and write a trend piece on 'zero-somethings.' Basically just 4 or 5 year olds who are about to start kindergarten, but then due to their own free will, or based on the assessment of their parents choose to 'stay home' instead of starting kindergarten.

Not sure what's so difficult about kindergarten. Isn't that just where they teach u to 'color inside the lines' and to 'wipe ur own ass'? Seems like parents need to stop babying their kids at such a young age, or else they will grow up to be 'twenty-something hipsters' who have achieved/excelled within the American educational system, but cant' really contribute anything to society/earn income.

Kinda seems like both twenty-somethings and zero-somethings are both super lazy, 'redshirting' the option of growing up:

AFTER all those attentive early childhood rituals — the flashcards, the Kumon, the Dora the Explorer, the mornings spent in cutting-edge playgrounds — who wouldn’t want to give their children a head start when it’s finally time to set off for school?

Suzanne Collier, for one. Rather than send her 5-year-old son, John, to kindergarten this year, the 36-year-old mother from Brea, Calif., enrolled him in a “transitional” kindergarten “without all the rigor.” He’s an active child, Ms. Collier said, “and not quite ready to focus on a full day of classroom work.”

“Redshirting” of kindergartners — the term comes from the practice of postponing the participation of college athletes in competitive games — became increasingly widespread in the 1990s, and shows no signs of waning.

Sorta wish my parents considered whether or not I was 'ready 'for social interaction before they enrolled me in public school, and made me ride the bus every morning. Seems like they just thought school was a 'public baby sitting program' or something, so they just kinda abused it to keep my busy.

Kinda wish I could take 'transitional years' regularly, finishing college at age 45. Do u think my parents would be chill with that? Feel like people think they can only 'take a year off' during college, but I guess u can do it before kindergarten too.

Did u take a year off during school? Were u 'held back'?
how old were u when u started kindergarten? Were u an older class bully, or a young, smart bro who deserved to be there?

With the wide age spans in kindergarten classrooms, each new generation of preschool parents must grapple with where exactly to slot their children. Wiggly, easily distracted and less mature, boys are more likely to be held back than girls, but delayed enrollment is now common for both sexes.

“Technically, Lillian could go to kindergarten,” Ms. Tayse Baillieul said. Moving her up from part-time preschool would allow Ms. Tayse Baillieul to return to work and earn income. But Lillian’s preschool teachers counseled her to hold Lillian back. “They said staying in preschool a year longer will probably never hurt and will probably always help, especially with social and emotional development.”

If u had the chance, would u 'delay growing up', and start kindergarten at age 10-15?
do u feel like u would be a natural, free, authentic spirit if u didn't get ur vibes crushed in a public/private educational institution?
Should we all just be homeschooled?

Seems like parents don't want their younger kids to be influenced by the bullshit consumer trends of older kids in their kindergarten class:

Still, it bothers her that children in the same class are as much as a year and a half older than Clare. “She has friends who are 11 who are going to get their periods this year, and she’s still playing with American Girl dolls.” Another mother complained that her 4-year-old became hooked on Hannah Montana by her aspiring-tween classmates. A 6-year-old wielding a light saber can be awfully intimidating to a boy who still sleeps with his teddy.

Did yall have ur first period in kindergarten?
Were u worried that u were gonna die?
Wish all humans could mature at the same rate and never die.

Sorta wish my parents started me in kindergarten 'right out of the womb' so I coulda gone to Harvard/Yale/The New School/Pratt/something more prestigious than community college:

“Among parents here, there’s a tremendous demand for kindergarten earlier,” said Eva Moskowitz, founder of the Harlem Success Academy Charter School, which pushed its cutoff back to Dec. 1. “If these parents could start their kids at 2, they would.” Not everyone, alas, defines academic privilege the same way.

Wish we could just come up with a rule that solved this societal problem, instead of using the age-old excuse that 'every1 is different.' We rlly need to fix this problem before zero somethings become ten-somethings, then those ten-somethings become twenty-somethings.

Is the NY Times 'killing it' with progressive journalism, or is this article just made for parents who are taking 'internet breaks' to catch up on relevant websites so they don't feel so isolated from the world in their American dream?
Do u think zero-something kids are 'ass holes'?
Are they worse than twenty-somethings?
Are parents 'over-parenting' and just need to let kids make their own mistakes, even if they are 2-7 years old?
Do parents help to create worthless kids at a young age?
Did u learn everything u needed to know about life in kindergarten?

R u gonna enroll ur zero-somethings/toddlers in school, or just buy them a condo in Brooklyn and let them 'figure out life on their own'?