Getting Ready for Kindergarten
By KidsDirect Editorial Team Getting Your Child Ready for Kindergarten Most kids walk into kindergarten having already spent time away from home. In 2022, about 84 percent of five year olds and 47 percent of three and four year olds were enrolled in school, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Plenty of children have been through preschool or child care by September. The move to the big school goes smoothly for many of them. Some kids take a little longer to settle in. That’s fine. A bit of wariness around new people and places is a healthy instinct,