Some people think that children who spend alot of time reading children's story books are wasting their time which could be better used doing other more useful activities. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Nowadays, there are a lot of children who like to spend their free time playing games, reading books or going out with friends. Most parents want their kids to go out and enjoy leisure activities, but the others think that the children should read books to gain more interesting and helpful knowledge.
Moreover
, not just for fun like going out, reading books help children to relax and learn about new things too. I am not totally agree with the statement that has given.
Firstly
, when reading books, children can learn more new things in the world.
For example
: when reading red riding hood, from the naughty girl in the
story
, we can learn that we shouldn’t trust new people and we have to listen to our parents and do what they say.
Secondly
, many children find that reading books make them relax and they just want to read more because the
story
is usually very interesting.
Last
but not least, children can learn to read at a young age because parents could teach children how to read the book in an interesting way.
However
, reading books still have some disadvantages.
Firstly
, when kids don’t know how to read books
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the right way, they will place their eyes too near the page and that leads to bad eyesight.
Secondly
, there are some children that are addicted in entertaining books, so sometimes, they neglect school and have bad marks.
Finally
, there are some books that contain bad information, the child is too young to understand
that is
bad, so they keep reading and cause harm in their normal mental growth. To conclude,
although
reading
story
books do have some disadvantages. I think both the children and other people can overcome
this
and make
reading
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a reading story
the reading story
story
book an interesting and helpful activity for children. I am not completely agree with the statement that
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