Whether children should start school younger? At what age should children start formal schooling? This issue has been raised many times in almost every country and among many psychologists that we can

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Whether children should start school younger? At what age should children start formal schooling? This issue has been raised many times in almost every country and among many psychologists that we can even call it as a long-running debate. However, everybody is interested to know the right answer to this worrying question. First of all, every child develops individually and has his or her personal inclinations to education. Some show interest in everything earlier while others need more time to have the interest in different subjects even for example in preferances to choose toys. In that case kids should not be brought to school before 7 because it might appear that they are not really ready to that. Besides, there is a big role of upbringing and even genes. If a child was teached to learn and discover something from the cradle he may be able to develop earlier than others. Otherwise, child should be taughted step by step according personal development. Moreover, there is an opinion explaining bad consequences in the future. Dr Richard House, a senior lecturer at Roehampton University’s Research Centre for Therapeutic Education says that many bright children can grow up in an “intellectually unbalanced way”, suffering lifelong negative health effects and even premature death, after being pushed into formal schooling too quickly. On the other hand, there is also advantages in early studying. For example, involving child in studying process from an early age may become a good push to prepare kid to study well. Because children are really good learners from 3 year and it is not a secret that children aged 3-4 can be very successful in learning languages. It is that age when parents can base first interests of their child.Besides, more often it is much easier to study for children who started to do that at 5, because they began to broaden their understanding and outlook earlier. To sum up, I would like to say that in my opinion this question will be contentious and discussing for a long time, because there are a lot of advantages and disadvantages. However, I think that people should care more about their child’s individuality because only parents know what is better for their child and how they can help him or her to develop as good as it possible and without any harm to personality.

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Should children start school younger?

At what age should children start formal schooling? This issue has been raised many times in almost every country and among so many psychologists that we can even call it as a long-running debate. However, Everybody is interested to know the right answer to this worrying question.
First of all, every child develops individually and has his or her own personal inclinations to education. Some show interest in everything earlier while others need more time to have the an interest in different subjects, even for example in preferences to choose toys. In that case kids should not be brought to school before 7 because it might appear that they are not really ready to for that. Besides, there is a big role of upbringing and even genes. If a child was teached taught to learn and discover something from the cradle he may be able to develop earlier than others. Otherwise, child should be taughted taught step by step according personal development. Moreover, there is an opinion explaining bad consequences in the future. Dr Richard House, a senior lecturer at Roehampton University’s Research Centre for Therapeutic Education says that many bright children can grow up in an “intellectually unbalanced way”, suffering lifelong negative health effects and even premature death, after being pushed into formal schooling too quickly.
On the other hand, there is also advantages in early studying. For example, involving child in studying process from an early age may become a good push to prepare kids to study well. Because children are really good learners from 3 years old and it is not a secret that children aged 3-4 can be very successful in learning languages. It is that age when parents can base first interests of their child. Besides More often it is much easier to study for children who started to do that at 5, because they began to broaden their understanding and outlook earlier.
To sum up, I would like to say that in my opinion this question will be contentious and be discussed for a long time, because there are a lot of advantages and disadvantages. However, I think that people should care more about their child’s individuality because only parents know what is better for their child and how they can help him or her to develop as good as it possible and without any harm to their personality.

I start school at 5 haha But I think it was a good decision of my parents :) And yes I agree that parent's role is really important for children

I was put into school early (at age 4) because my mother could not afford day care. I can't say what if any affect this had on me. I agree that it will be different for everyone, boys especially have a hard time with a slow calm environment at a young age. Not just being formally educated but how they are educated I think will have a bigger impact. I think parents need to play a bigger role in education of their children than their school.

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