I agree with this article. In my experience, children whom start kindy later tend to be more emotionally ready for the schooling environment and can concentrate more. There can however be exceptions to this.

I agree with this article. In my experience I have found when a child starts kindy as an older child, they tend to be more emotionally prepared for the schooling environment and can concentrate more on the academic aspects. However there can always be exceptions to this.

Nonsense. Students all even out by Year 2 and the rest depends on maturity and learning skills in general, not birth month.

I think it also depends on how interactive the parents are in helping their kids learn and how much they teach them.

why do we do this research – what end benefit is there – are all future mums going to plan conceiving so they end up with a September baby? I think not – I think this sort of research is pointless and time and money wasting – so many people are dying of incurable diseases, mental health issues etc surely money spent on researching would be better spent on something that can actually benefit people rather than just a bunch of statistics?

some kids are just smarter than others in academics or better at sports etc. Each child is good at their own set of skills and that makes it hard to judge in regards to school where it is set courses for learning. Schools should try different approaches for teaching

I have a September baby starting kindy next year and he turned 4 last sunday. So he should be smack in the middle of his age group.

Mine will be 5 when he starts school.

My kids were 5 turning 6 when they started kindy.

My daughter is one of the youngest in her year and it doesn’t seem to have affected her grades or social interactions.

My second son makes the cutoff by a few days, so have decided to wait a year. So much research showing the benefits of starting a bit later versus starting earlier. They’ll grow up quick enough anyway

My daughter went to kindy the year she was turning 6. The cut-off was at the end of July and she missed it for less than a month. But I never found it a problem.