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Is My Child Ready For Kindergarten

ready for kindergartenJust because your child is old enough to attend kindergarten doesn’t mean he is emotionally, socially, and even physically ready. So age is not the only indicator that your children ready for kindergarten. There are numerous factors to determine your children is truly ready for kindergarten. You can use this general checklist to find out your children is ready for kindergarten. Here are the key points to keep in mind when you’re trying to determine whether your child is ready to start kindergarten:

  • Can spend extended periods of time away from parents or people they know for a few hours without being upset.
  • Speaks clearly and is easily understood by others.
  • Listen to instructions and follows them.
  • Child enjoy playing with other children without having a lot of fights.
  • Child capable of sitting still and listening to a story without disrupting his classmates.
  • Willing to try new tasks, and to try them again if they don’t succeed the first time.

To determine whether your boy or girl is really ready to start kindergarten, your child should have most of the skills on above checklist.