Thursday, 12 February 2015

Send your child to boarding for all the right reasons

As a cliché goes, the proof of the pudding is in the eating, there’s no way you can chalk out a stencil parenting plan that could fit your child. No two children, not eve siblings, are same and the way they should be brought up varies with their individual traits and psyche. Some children might grow best when they are planted on unaccustomed earth early in their life while others need their parents to care, sooth and reprimand them with each step.

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So you as a parent bear the extra responsibility to determine whether a boarding school will be better for your child or not. Children who are mentally prepared for the stay away from home and are groomed in the right environment can go places with their skills. Whereas, other children who were not ready for the change may grow up to be complex adult characters who would carry a lifetime resentment against the decision made for them. Let’s first take a look at the good things that can happen to your child due to the kind of upbringing and resources he gets at a boarding, says the vice-principal at one of the best day care centre Noida.

•Discipline is one of the first things their personality will reflect to an outsider, which immediately gives them an edge over others.

•Learning to handle the nuances of life, they are very organized in whatever they pursue.
•They tend to take a more pragmatic approach towards life.


• They are better prepared for college.

• A sense of community and tolerance breeds in them which is otherwise hard for parents to teach them to such extents

• They have their own network of alumni and mates who will prove to be valuable professional contacts in the future, says a teacher at a top day school for kids.

• Boarders are also good at time management, a trait many managers and adult professionals strive to hard to master.

• Maturity and ability to take critical decisions are few other traits. However the list doesn’t end here.

But if your child is too young or too soft for the change and separation, the move can even backfire. An introvert child when forced to stay away from family might not be able to cope with the emotional trauma. They may recede away from the family or struggle to establish a       

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