How does 5 differ from 4?

[RubyWild]

My Dd is a few months from 5, but she just seems so different these past few weeks. I keep feeling like she has turned 5 already. Does anyone have a sense of the general difference between age 4 and age 5?

[angela&avery]

YES!!

My ds is 4 1/2 and will be 5 in June.... so we are.....a little over 3 months away... he is definately so much more mature. There is a boy who is a year younger in our church group, and we had chorus practice and the difference was huge in attention span and interest (then again, the boy may not have actually been interested in doing it, either) .... but they are very different.

I think 5 is a huge difference from that preschool age. Its like.. toddlers, preschoolers and then kids...... 5 and up, yk?

I noticed it in swim practice too. Ds ended up in a swim class with a couple five year olds as he was ready to move up... but he wasnt able to coordinate his muscles and stuff to do the backstroke... he wasnt as strong... he did well, but not as precise, not as coordinated.... He did two sessions and then we took a couple off.. but now he seems bigger... yk? Stronger..... we cant wrestle with him anymore (well I cant, dh can).. he hurts me .... hes too strong and heavy for me...lol....

Ya, i think there is a difference.

[USAmma]

My dd has become much more nurturing, more sensitive to the feelings of others, more socially cooperative in play settings, she has turned into a "little mommy" with her toys and her sister, and she can do more things by herself. She likes to get dressed herself, needs privacy in the bathroom, wants to take showers instead of baths sometimes, has a budding sense of her own personal taste in clothes and hair style. She worries more about things like death, car accidents, and sickness and disease.

[2Sweeties1Angel]

I really didn't notice a difference, but then DS only turned 5 on January 23. He seems the same to me. I'll probably saying that when he's 50.

[2kids4now]

I hope that happens soon here - we need the balance again.

My just turning 4 1/2 girl is sooo emotional lately. Very sensitive, moody at times - can turn from happy to sad in a heartbeat. Physically she looks and acts older ~ so I have to remind myself and others that she's not. She's already doing many of the things that USamma mentioned which probally adds to the frustration of her not getting the same privelages as her older sibling.

I think when she gets closer to 5 it WILL seem like a huge change as this challenging time will have passed

I've read the "your X year old" series, and those authors write about my kids perfectly LOL.

It's so very hard being a child at times. I really don't know if I'd want to go through it again.

May

[angela&avery]

Originally Posted by USAmma

. She worries more about things like death, car accidents, and sickness and disease.

my ds does too , also about the miracle of life...

[MomBirthmomStepmom]

DD will be 5 in April, and I've been wondering about this too. Alot of the things already mentioned, she already is like (having her own taste in clothes/hair, taking showers instead of baths etc. Although, isn't overyl interested in bathroom privacy yet..lol and still flashes everyone constantly She's also very sensitive, and gets very very upset when I leave to go anywhere, work, the store, or even to the bathroom by mjyself..)

[UmmBnB]

Ds's 5th birthday is today. He woke up and crawled over into dd's toddlerbed/sidecar sleeper and said, very dramatically, "This bed is soooo small for me now that I'm 5! I simply HAVE to sleep in my bed from now on!"

I'm holding him to it!!!!