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I hear it all the time: “Kindergarten isn’t what it was when I was little.” Parents remember nap time, play centers, half days, and plenty of time to ease into school. But kindergarten has changed. School days are longer, academic expectations have increased, and many of the skills that were once taught in kindergarten are […]
If your child has a summer birthday, deciding when to start kindergarten can feel surprisingly complicated. Do you send them as soon as they’re eligible? Give them another year? Will they be bored if you wait? Will they struggle if you don’t? And then there are all the outside opinions. Their preschool friends are going. […]
Starting kindergarten is a big transition for kids and parents. There are new routines to learn, earlier mornings to navigate, lunches to pack, backpacks to remember, and a whole new school environment for your child to get used to. After spending 11 years working in elementary schools (and now experiencing the back-to-school transition as a […]
