A child can be sent to pre-school as he turns 3. Many pre-schools even admit kids who are 2 and half years old based on the child’s skills and knowledge. In general, kids stay in preschool for a year or two and then move to kindergarten from where their journey towards education and school gets started.

Play-school and your child
Play school in a way prepares them for the new phase wherein they will explore new things and get to recognize their potentials. It gives them the beforehand experience of how it exactly feels like being in a school. Also, this phase even helps them in learning many of the vital skills apart from learning to read, or write.

Studying and spending time with kids of their age, they get to have more understanding of relations, people and emotions too. They learn to get social and work as a team. Being away from home, they learn the ways of adjusting all by on their own. Often, it even leads to your toddler turning self-dependent.

Late Schooling and its effects on kids
Though most parents sent their kids to school by the age of three, many hold on and delay the process. Some do this fearing that their child is still not capable of adjusting in school while others do it owing to certain reasons as not being able to find a school nearby or some personal matter.

Whatever the reason is, this has generated a lot of curiosity as parents wish to know if entering kindergarten late can help kids perform better in school or does it hamper their learning process.

If go by a latest research, delayed schooling can apparently result into poor academic performance in kids. Sounds a little surprising, isn’t it? But the fact remains intact that it does hamper your child’s academic performance and even makes way for other problems that can affect your child.

Let us here dwell into the subject in detail and understand how exactly delayed kindergarten affects your child.

1. Behavioral issues
Kids admitted to kindergarten pretty late, or admitted directly to primary classes show some behavioral issues. They may have difficulty in adjusting with other kids of their age. They may retrieve themselves to a shell and shy away from mingling with fellow students. They can even act in a rough manner and feel frustrated all the time.

2. Slow learning process
The learning process in kids can also slow down owing to the delayed schooling. This is primarily because they will find it hard to adjust with the learning techniques as followed in school as all this while they were acquainted with the learning techniques they learnt at home. They may not be able to gasp things as quickly as other kids would do.

3. Lower self-esteem
Yes, your child’s self-esteem can also get affected if you happen to delay his schooling. Entering a new surrounding, he is bound to compare himself with other kids of his age. Kids, who are familiar with pre-school, find it easier to adjust in kindergarten as compared to the kids who find the whole thing new.  Despite having the needed skills, kids may feel themselves to be lesser capable than others.

4. Lack of self-dependence
Once kids get started with schooling, they learn to be self-dependent. They accept the fact that their moms can’t be around when they are in school and they will have to do their stuff on their own. Be it eating, washing hands or doing any other activity; they make efforts to do it on their own. The same nature doesn’t build up in kids who start the school a bit late. They get so habituated of being helped every time that they simply refuse to do things on their own.

Conclusion
As you can analyze from the above points, your child’s development gets fully affected when the schooling process is started late. All these apparently lead to your child not being able to focus on his academics as his brain development doesn’t take place in an effective manner.

You may be able to teach your little one at home for the initial years, but it would never be same as the learning environment he will get in a school. In case of delayed schooling, your child may or may not pick up the things as taught. By delaying school, you will end up weakening his learning base.

Let your child set out in the world at a tender age and understand things around by means of education. Give him a strong base that can help him build a flawless future!