The Brood: Could your child benefit from starting kindergarten later?

Students wait for a graduation ceremony from a year of classes at Stanley Mosk Elementary School. Some of the students in the class are part of a transitional kindergarten program.

A new study out of Stanford finds strong evidence that enrolling children in kindergarten at age 6, or even age 7, can result in dramatic mental health benefits.

It's a tricky question— is your child ready for kindergarten? Or not?

Five years ago, a California law gradually changed the cutoff birthdate for entry to kindergarten so that by 2014 all California kids would be at least 5 years old when they began kindergarten.

Before that, kids in California had been starting kindergarten earlier than children in most other states, some before they really had all the necessarily skills to succeed.

Now a new study out of Stanford finds strong evidence that enrolling children in kindergarten even later— at age 6 or even age 7, rather than at age 5— can result in dramatic mental health benefits.

Southern California Public Radio's Deepa Fernandes has been looking into the study and joined Take Two to discuss.

To hear the full interview, click the link above.