Dr. Karen Wilson

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 192a: Dr. Karen Wilson on How to Know if Your Child is Ready for Elementary School · 11 Apr 2025 podcast

attention, following directions is often related to later difficulties with reading and math.

And so we want to be able to kind of see where children are in their ability to focus, to pay attention, to follow directions, because that is, again, an early indicator, an early sign of success or difficulty, depending on where a child falls on kind of the continuum of those things.

Absolutely.

I think it's something that's important for all kids, regardless of their experience and regardless of their skill level.

But kids will differ in terms of their ability to do those things.

And that really tells you about the readiness.

And of course, there has to be a good match with the kindergarten classroom that they're going to be entering.

But these are things to start to be mindful of early on and to ask preschool teachers about.

Or if a child is at home with a babysitter, to ask questions about following directions and things like that that we know are important later on.

And of course, we're going to be thinking about language development as well, because children are going to have to be able to, again, follow directions, which is language-based,

but also express what it is that they need and what it is that they want.

And can they do it in a way that doesn't cause them to be frustrated?

And so a lot of these things interact with each other because if kids struggle with expressing their needs and their desires, then they can become frustrated and have difficulty regulating their emotions, right?

And so they have a meltdown because they can't adequately express what it is that they're experiencing.

So we want to make sure that we're looking at their language skills.

And it's often we think about, are they ready?

So do we hold them back or do we put them into kindergarten?

But the other question is, how do we prepare them for kindergarten?

It may not be that we keep them in preschool for another year.

It may be that we do something over the summer to make them better prepared for kindergarten when they do enter.

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