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As for home tutoring or early classes, thats all BS.
My son has a cousin who is 6 months older than him, but is in his year at school and his class.
She was given home tuition from my sister (who's a qualified teacher) and not sent to play groups or anything like that.
My son was allowed to just be a kid! he enjoyed playschool from 2 onwards.
She was very antisocial and didn't cope well with groups of children at all. When they started pre-school he started perfectly where as she really struggled, now they are both 7 nearly 8 and going into year 3 at junior school and there is no difference in their ability academically...
so what i am saying is, let them enjoy being a child, don't force them to learn! of course help them if they are interested in learning, my son has always been very very good with numbers and numeracy, the other day he came down and asked how long there was of a film i was watching, 16 minutes i said, he instantly replied with "that's 960 seconds".
Everyone has a different take on parenthood and everyone is very judgemental. Try and do it your own way, i come from a big family and am the second eldest sibling and that has helped.
Your parents are always a good bunch to turn to for help.