IS IT GOOD TO SEND CHILDREN TO HOSTEL?

Though my blog title is school management, today I am writing for parents who send their children to hostel and think their children will get best life skills their viz. discipline, etiquettes etc. Let me tell you an incident.

Yesterday, I was sitting at my client’s place. We started talks on Education of children. While talking to him a surprising truth dawned on me. Which was he sent his children to hostel because his children were not at all interested in studies.  He sent them so that he can get relief of that tension and on other hostel people will take care of these things themselves. Then I asked him about their tuitions and school. He replied that they do not listen to the tutor and school teachers don’t care that much.

This is not the situation with this person only but it is the situation with many other people.  They send their children to hostel because:
1.       They don’t know how to deal with children.
2.       They think hostel will teach discipline
3.       They don’t have time to tender their children
4.       Some of parents feel it as a pride to send their children to hostel.
5.    Etc.

Keeping the above given points in mind acknowledge some below given facts.

     1.       Your children are not career or money making machine which you are preparing by giving them education.
     2.       Human beings are social beings, when you send them to hostel in early age or when they are in school they tend to lose values of relations.  It becomes difficult for them to carry relations in life. Where in a country like India you even make good relation with your neighbor.
     3.       They many a times become a being who is just career oriented and money oriented and forgets that this life is much more than making money.
     4.       Though they will become good at discipline and some other skills but I believe that it is not something to learn on the cost of relations and other things which makes you social beings.
     5.       And the biggest thing is that your children have not committed any crime for which you are keeping them away from their children.
     6.       You know one thing, children take best cultural values and discipline in a joint family which can’t be given in any hostel around the world.

To give your children best of education don’t break your joint family and be your children’s friend literally not just by worlds. Love them and understand them that is enough to tender your children.

And remember degrees are not everything.

Maradona, Ronaldo, Steve jobs, Pele, Dhirubhai Ambani, Sachin Tendulkar and some other very successful people were not degree holders. Still they are known by world. Your child could also have some natural talent or some natural instinct try to discover that, your child can also become one like the above examples.

Best of luck !!!