From the innocuous like will she ever bathe to ones like will she get bullied are raging in your mind.
Here is what you can do to make the transition from home to boarding painless for your child.
The Right Age
When it comes to raising children, experts agree that there is no place like home.
"Home is the first school and parents are the first teachers," says Mumbai based Psychiatrist Dr. Leena Bahrani, "Childhood should be spent with parents for the warmth, the love and the comfort one gets at home."
But if the separation from home is necessary, "the later the better," says Dr. Dayal Mirchandani, a Psychiatrist with the Behavioural Science Foundation, Mumbai. According to him, children should be old enough to express their needs and capable to cope with seniors who might bully or ill-treat them.
They also cannot see that boarding is a temporary arrangement and they will come back home.
Jyotsna Brar, Principal of Welham Girls' School, a residential school for girls in Dehradun, says, "The right age is just before they hit their teens. Smaller children are less self conscious and it is easier to adjust to other children when you are not suddenly growing." Interestingly, Brar has been a boarder all her life.
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