Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-26636534-20180912192047/@comment-30323490-20180916175307

Another thing is that he most likely went to the academy much earlier that the other kids of his age. Naruto failed the graduation exam 3 times, while Sasuke, Sakura and the others managed on their first try. So Naruto must've been around the academy much longer than the others if he had 2 additional tries to graduate.So a big part of his day was supervised by the academy teachers. Until he went to the academy, he probably had some caretaker.