By Sylvia Gonzalez
Last year, my grandson Rickey took his first steps into a transitional kindergarten classroom. When he was in preschool, Rickey, a fall baby with a November birthday, was among the youngest in the class and I noticed him avoiding leadership roles, as well as fine motor skill activities such a coloring. As a grandmother, I believed in his intelligence and abilities, but I knew that the gift of time was just what he needed to foster those invaluable learning traits.