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@aegisheart Context: My son is turning 4 in a few weeks and started junior kindergarten this past September. He was a preemie and is small for his age but kids in Canada start the year they turn 4. He walked into junior kindergarten being able to read fluently and likely somewhere in grade 2...

@kbenitez83 That is a great idea. Do whatever it takes!

@17cleo Bath time became a nightmare. Then I had an epiphany. I asked him: do you want a number bath? I grabbed all his bath friendly toys with numbers and threw them in. The next night: dinosaur bath. Followed by zoo bath and art bath. Most importantly, there has been no screaming and he...

@benftw It’s pretty rough on the younger kids. Fortunately it’s a play based program for the first 2 years with some academics sprinkled in. Mine did an entrance exam for a private school a week after he turned 3. They asked him to recognize 15 letters, numbers, shapes (oval included) and...

@benftw Nope - in Canada they do it by the calendar year. So if your kid turns 4 by December, they can start in September. Mine will be 3 and 9 months when he starts.

@jonlv My mum is a ECE and my sister is a teacher. They both said that kids born at the end of the year have a harder time but catch up by grade 2. There’s a whole year between the kids born in January and those born in December. Those checklists are assuming that the kid is 4 going on 5...

@jonlv Mine is also born at the end of the year and will be starting in September (Ontario). JK and SK are play-based programs. There isn’t an academic focus until grade 1. They will learn their ABCs as the other kids do. There’s a wide range on picking up reading skills (3-7). If you’re...