Some people say that parents should encourage their children to take part in organised group activities in their free time. Others say that it is important for children to learn how to occupy themselves on their own. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.

Parents can sometimes want their children to take part in either group activities all the

time

or hope that their children

use

their free

time

alone, away from outer influences. Parents should understand that it is equally important for children to take part in a group and to be able to put their free

time

for personal

use

properly to be able to grow up to become physically and mentally strong. Children should experience what it is like to cooperate with a

team

for the benefit of their future career and social life. Corporate environments always want their employees to be

team

players as they require a

team

to finish their project on

time

and if someone on the

team

does not play along well, it can only delay the project and cost the company dearly. A survey on some of the big multi-national companies showed that most of the employees that have played some form of sports, which included a

team

in schools seem to adjust to teams at workplace better than those that did not play anything or played only one-on-one sports. To become a strong individual, children should be able to

use

their solitude productively or at least in a manner that suggests an enjoyable

behavior

manner of acting or controlling yourself

behaviour

. When children can

use

their

lone

primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified

long

time

to create something or build their personality, on their own, they tend to become used to be comfortable with being alone, if they have to and not get depressed about it as an adult. To explain with an obvious scenario, it can be said that if a person, as a child, used to become depressed being alone, it is can be obvious that they could develop depressive mental ailments as they become adults and become victims to even other mental health issues. Children should be encouraged to be both comfortable as

team

players and

also

be comfortable with their lone

time

. It can give an all-round mental growth to become a successful and happy individual.