Parents should encourage children to spend less time studying and more time doing physical activities. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Some parents

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that the studying time for their

children

should be reduced and the portion of physical

activities

need to be increased. While academic studying is an important part

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their growth, I do agree with the idea that

children

should participate more in physical

activities

. I will explain my opinion as followings.

First

of all, doing physical

activities

would have

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effect on the development of self-discipline, which is a habit that could benefit

children

's

further

study. Physical

trainings

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training

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require a strict time schedule and

healthy

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diet.

For instance

, one of

classmates

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in high school was a school basketball player. He had to wake up at 6 o'clock in the morning and jog around the campus as

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training to boost his stamina. He

also

ate food with low calory only in order to maintain a good body shape. The training not only built up his physical body but strengthen his mental will as well.

As a result

, he was admitted to one of the top

universitas

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universities

after high school. Another advantage of doing physical

activities

is to collaborate with teammates and

therefore

result in learning from peers. Sports,

such

as football and basketball, require players to think from a different perspective in order to understand the intention of their teammates. The process could potentially from

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empathy which is a precious catachrestic of human beings. Meanwhile, as players always spend most of the time training together in groups, it is a great opportunity to have mutual benefits by learning from each other. In conclusion, by doing more physical

activities

,

children

will not only develop both physical and mental strength to prepare them for

further

academic studies

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but

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acquire the spirit of teamwork as well.