As we talked about throughout our course, the development of the brain is very important when it comes to the first years of a child’s life. I have been granted the opportunity to observe a kindergarten classroom which allows me to see how these early important developmental years. One situation which has shined a light on how important this development, is the age of which you send your kids to school. There are two students who barely made the age requirement for being in kindergarten. Both of these students parents were asked to hold them out until the next year but they decided that they wanted them in kindergarten anyway. This has allowed me to notice the small but important differences that can show through only a years difference. Although this is not for all students that may be younger, in this situation I have found that these students who are younger are less mature and their listening skills are far less than their other classmates. This could be for a long range of reasons, but here are some of the reasons I believe it may be, they have had less time to mature emotionally, mentally, and physically. Although parenting skills could play an important factor in a situation such as this, I would not be surprised the years worth of maturing is the biggest factor to why these students lack certain skills that other students have.