To all parents of summer born children at school....

[MunchMummy]

How do you deal with the 'all my friends are x years old' when they still have a few months before they turn the same age.

My DD1 is in the preschool attached to the school she'll hopefully go to and has been watching all her friends turn 4 all year and she's really upset that she's still 3.

She won't be 4 until mid July.

Any tips on what I can tell her, as I can see we're going to have this problem every year.

DS is the last week in August so made it into his school year by the skin of his teeth. The only problem we have had so far is that trying to organise a birthday party in the summer holidays is a nightmare as a lot of people are away and as it is so late in the holidays forget! I do see the issue with Beavers/Cubs arising though at some point in the future.

Perhaps best to be born in the middle, Greenshadow.

I too have a august baby whi will be 3. She went to pre school when she was 2 and 2 months because I felt that I don't want her at a disadvantage when she is older. BUT we do not qualify for any state funding as she will be 3 after she leaves pre school. Fortunatly it is not a problem for us as we can afford it but when the government is going on about child poverty and the fact that children that come from poorer backgrounds dont do as well at school this to me is cynical. If you base the school year on from Sept to Aug then all funding should be based as such. My other daughter was only in nursery for 1 term because she is an august baby, while some of the children in her reception class were in nursery for 4 whole terms. How is this fair on her?