By Martyn Rawson, Michael Rose

When are children ready for school? Many parents have concerns about their children entering formal schooling too early. They question the “hot housing” of their children, and the accompanying stressful side-effects of “too much formal schooling too soon“.

Ready to Learn will help you to decide when your child is ready to take the step from kindergarten to school proper. The key is an imaginative grasp of how children learn to play, speak, think and relate between birth and six years of age. Ready to Learn offers parents and professionals useful “maps” for understanding: