Doing an enjoyable activity with a child can develop better skills and more creativity than reading. To what extent do you agree?

Measures that have beneficial impacts on children’s growth are discussed by most parents nowadays.

Although

reading is one of the effective methods, I subscribe to the notion that playing pleasurable

activities

with children is a better approach for them to learn

skills

and cultivate their creativity.

This

essay will discuss

this

issue, using examples from Harvard University and Japan government to demonstrate points and support arguments.

To begin

with, unlike reading, joyful

activities

involved in interaction cultivate a child's numerous

skills

.

Such

exercises including team sports or multiplayer puzzle-solving games, not only need children to achieve targets by cooperation but

also

require them to organize and express their thoughts,

therefore

improving their

skills

of oral communication and teamwork.

For example

, Recent studies from Harvard show that minors who played basketball and football at a young age can show more confidence when giving public speeches and better lead a team to finish group studies.

In contrast

, one can read a book alone without any contact with others,

thus

the above

skills

cannot be enhanced by reading. On top of that, reading may not be better than engaging in other enjoyable

activities

as a form of developing minors’ creativity. In fact, many people agree that the best way to nurture a creative child is to encourage one to use imagination and create something new. According to research from the Japanese government,

for instance

, many Japanese artists reveal that their parents usually encouraged them to draw, play instruments or even build freestyles Lego building without any limits during their childhood, which kindled their inspiration to be art creators.

On the contrary

, reading might not be able to achieve the same outcome since it is all about receiving the existing information

instead

of inventing. In conclusion, due to the aforementioned examples, I firmly believe that involving a child in entertaining and playful

activities

,

instead

of reading, can develop superior

skills

and make the youngster more creative. Actually, it can be predicted that

such

a manner of parenting would become a popular trend in the future.