Holding our daughter back was the best decision for her i believe, she is just about to turn 7 and is heading into first class this year, when she started kindy she was a few weeks off 6 and there was one boy in her class who was still 4 (he turned 5 a few weeks later, he struggled so much and he was pulled out 2 terms in).

My DD excelled last year, she was the top reader and one of the top few in the class, she doesn't like to not be able to do things so i think if she had of gone the year before things would have been hard for her and she would have given up trying but because she went when she was that bit older things were easier for her and she loved doing it because she was good at it

Our DS is turning 5 in march but we are also holding him back, he is a real mummies boy and doesn't want to go to school at all, hopefully the extra year at home really helps him too