What is immature for a 4-year-old?

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Kids develop so much between 0 and 7, but especially in those early years that a child only has to be a little behind for it to be striking. As someone who works with under 6s, I can tell you that for the most part it is very noticible who the youngest children in the year are, because developmentally they're very 'young' (because they are!).

If you want quite an in-depth but also by category of development look at what immature looks like, take a look at 'Development Matters' which is the Early Years Foundation Stage guidelines used in the UK to see how kids match up developmentally.

I think the the things that are especially noticible are a) how children use language (a three year old talks very differently to both two and four year olds) and b) how children socialise (between 4 and 5 children become more engaged with playing with each other).

There was a time when nothing was considered immature for any child 8 years old or younger.

The world is growing up far too fast these days and parents are getting more and more nervous about the behaviour of their children, completely forgetting that they are indeed children.