HI Angela,
Sometimes younger children are not ready for alot of activities. My son when he was 4 I had put him on soccer,and lots of school work. He fought, cried, whinned. The following year I realized that his body was taking this all in, but was way too much for his nervous system. I let off the following 2 years, after he was much better in joining a baseball team then-[when they are this young they still don’t see the whole scope of the game still until 10 yr old or later!]At 5 1/2 slowly learning, I picked an interested area/or areas–1. he loved “books”, so we read to him enlessly more so[tiring for us, but worth it], then adding other school work little by little, did park days–with lots of time involved. Today he is in the 10th grade. a voracious reader,and loves writing, plays 3 intruments,is in the Symphony,he is above reading at collage level. I also want to say that in Findland & Swizerland children don’t start school until when they 7 and 8 years old. Hope this helps.
🙂 Olga