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Some people believe that children’s leisure activities must be educational, otherwise they are a complete waste of time. Do you agree or disagree? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your experience.

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To derive a double benefit from anything is considered a bonus and
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 is especially the case when discussing leisure activities for children. The idea to fuse both education and entertainment into one activity is a goal of many educators, some would even believe that failure to do
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 makes the activity pointless. Drawing from examples in Sweden and reviewing games
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 as Pokemon I firmly believe that all activities should have an educational value. Leisure activities are a perfect time to take advantage of the receptiveness in a child’s mind, some countries are adamant about
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. Take
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Sweden, for
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, for various years they
have legally stipulated
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legally stipulated
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 that all children’s toys sold in the country should have some educational value.
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, for
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 a rule to be passed it must be upheld by scientific research.
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 the advantage of incorporating an education element into toys is scientifically proven.
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, across the UK children were wasting their time collecting and learning all the statistics of each creature on each Pokemon card. If
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 these cards had been inter wined with more educational data the child could have simultaneously gained a more practical education. Due to the child learning large swathes of irrelevant and useless information it can be argued that the time would have been better spent with real facts and figures on the cards. To conclude, scientific evidence from Sweden and fantasy games
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 as Pokemon with little educational value are two clear reasons why children’s leisure activities should have an element of learning involved.
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