Good Speech “HOSTEL LIFE”

                                             “HOSTEL LIFE”

Some say that hostel life is must for a child to learn most practical lessons of life, which it would never be able to learn at home. Do you agree? Would you send your child to hostel?

I do agree that a child would be very well trained to face practical challenges of life by staying in a hostel, but the negativities of hostel life make many people, including me, apprehensive about sending their own child to hostel.

In hostels, there is fixed schedule which students need to abide by, through which they are able to discipline themselves and learn to value time. They themselves are responsible for their daily routine work like washing clothes, keeping surroundings orderly and clean, arranging bed etc. and so become self dependent. Children from different cultures and backgrounds intermingle in a hostel, which increases a child’s tolerance and flexibility.

Though the abovementioned benefits are there, I think home provides the best environment to a child. When a child is young, nothing is more important for it than love and affection of the family. At a tender age, a child is very much susceptible to fall into wrong habits, so it is important that it be brought up under family guidance. Moreover, the one living in a hostel also comes under a negative psychological impact of things like ragging or overuse of abusive language by other hostelites. He is likely to develop a typical behavior reflecting overinfluence of mischievousness. As a school teacher for a part of my life, I myself could easily distinguish a hostel child just by his behavior. Sometimes hostel food is such that a child develops dislike towards taking food. Another difficult task for a child is to get over the feeling of homesickness.

I believe that just for sake of a good practical experience one should not experiment sending his school going child to hostel as that is not the real age to learn all the practical lessons of life. For college studies, the decision is okay as the child is mature and prepared enough to go for a thrilling and challenging hostel experience.