Many people think that modern children have an abundance of free time and doing more school work in their free time is necessary. As parents, being concerned about children's grades and studies is natural but overpressuring them to study and get top grades might backfire. Children's leisure activity should be fun yet interesting which will eventually teach them important lessons and make them more creative.
Schoolwork is definitely important. But if children are forced to study all day long without having enough time for recreation or refreshment, it will increase their stress level and negatively affect their physical and cognitive development in later stages of their lives. I believe, free time means a child should be allowed to do things that our of their normal routine.
For children, it can be playing sports in the playground or a park with other kids of their age. This will teach them how to be a team player and enhance their social skills. They can also play educative video games for a few minutes and watch cartoon shows. Besides, practising a hobby sounds impressive to me. For this, a family should be open-minded and try to find the hidden talents of their offsprings. I believe that not all children are born with particular talents. It is our duty as parents, teachers and relatives who motivate them and engaging them in extracurricular activities such as drawing, dancing, singing etc are also necessary. We have to understand that an unsocial adolescent with good academic grades cannot make much impact on our society and cannot climb the professional success.
In conclusion, even though studying and preparing for exams is very important for the future of a child, we should not enforce them to be occupied with it all the time. Instead, various social, fun and creative activities in free time will make them more prepared for the future.
Many
people
think
that modern
children
have an abundance of
free
time
and doing more school work in their
free
time
is necessary. As parents,
being concerned
about children's grades and studies is natural
but
overpressuring
them to study and
get
top grades might backfire. Children's leisure activity should be fun
yet
interesting which will
eventually
teach them
important
lessons and
make
them more creative.
Schoolwork is definitely
important
.
But
if
children
are forced
to study all day long without having
enough
time
for recreation or refreshment, it will increase their
stress
level and
negatively
affect their physical and cognitive development in later stages of their
lives
. I believe,
free
time
means a child should be
allowed
to do things that our of their normal routine.
For
children
, it can be playing sports in the playground or a park with other kids of their age. This will teach them how to be a team player and enhance their social
skills
. They can
also
play educative video games for a few minutes and
watch
cartoon
shows
.
Besides
,
practising
a hobby sounds impressive to me. For this, a family should be open-minded and try to find the hidden talents of their
offsprings
. I believe that not all
children
are born
with particular talents. It is our duty as parents, teachers and relatives who motivate them and engaging them in extracurricular activities such as drawing, dancing, singing etc are
also
necessary. We
have to
understand that an unsocial adolescent with
good
academic grades cannot
make
much impact on our society and cannot climb the professional success.
In conclusion
,
even though
studying and preparing for exams is
very
important
for the future of a child, we should not enforce them to
be occupied
with it all the
time
.
Instead
, various social, fun and creative activities in
free
time
will
make
them more prepared for the future.