do you think children that are born in summer, find school harder ?

[robinredbreast]

dd was born in june,shes only 6 months

Generally yes though there are always exceptions. It is the social skills and general maturity that I have found to be less developed in summer born children. The gap closes as they progress through school though so its nothing to be concerned about long term.

I think it is generally true, but more of a problem for summer born boys. I'm sure someone will have research o back that up, but as lulurose said, the gap closes over time.

As far as your dd is concerned, I have two dds, born June and September. The June born girl has had no problems at all and was very quickly in top set for everything. My September bor dd is the oldest in her class and only now she is in year two is she getting into her stride and actually learning

They really are all very different.

my friend in school was born in August... She had 10 A's at GCSE, 3 A* at A-Level went to Oxford got a 2:1 and now earns really stupid mone in the City so no.....

IMO, looking at my dd's class I would say no

thanks just been thinking about when dd goes to school 4 just sems so young, sometime i wish sh could be a baby forever

i know im gonna miss her like hell
shes the joy and love of my life

but i guess ill just have to think about all the new good stuff we can do together

They get older, they want to around their friends -this becomes v important and imagine, you can do museums the theatre etc
And yiou may have a nother baby by then (like I have)

I know, my relationship with my dc1 is very intense and over powering

i just fell head over heels in love with dd really.
and yes mrsr thats a great way of describing it

how many children do you have ?

I do think it's more a potential issue with boys. Purely anecdotally, I have observed that they are just generally a little less mature than girls the same age. Generally, not infallibly. But there's some educational consensus that later born boys can continue to be disadvantaged for longer than you'd think. I vaguely recall a study or two pointing up differences in GCSE/A level attainment, depending on month of birth, once the pupils studied had been analysed in terms of raw ability.

In my case, each of my 4 dcs was born in a different season; ds1 (14) born in July for example was certainly immature during the earlier part of his schooling and not achieving in line with his abilities. but now he's at one of the UK's top schools in academic terms, and fine.

with my four older children three were born in february and one in August, the August one really really struggled at first it was awful he is now 15 and funnily enough though he is the one who is predicted to do the best in his exams

I have 3. DS1 is 9 (born end of july), DS2 is 7 (nov) and DD is 5 (nov).

DS1 was far more ready for school at 4.1 than DS2 was at 4.10.

I think there is a tendancy for summer borns to be behind winter borns - after all a year is a lot of time when you are only 4. I do think it depends hugely on the child though. A bright outgoing summer born child can quite easily be ahead of a child 10 or 11 months their senior.

I also think the gap closes very quickly, by the time they are finishing yr R and starting yr 1 the summers have caught up.

yes ds(14) born in september top of the class, ds(6) born in july er not top of the class