Doing an enjoyable activity with a child can be better for their overall skills development and creativity than reading. To what extent do you agree?
These days, some people argue the need for doing enjoyable
activities
with their children
to improve kids’ overall
skills
development and originality rather than reading with them. I am largely in agreement with this
view. That is
because while
joyful activities
always help children
to stay healthy mentally and physically, doing only reading might cause childhood obesity
and isolation.
To begin
with, some individuals think that parents
can help their children
's entire skills
and creative development by doing enjoyable activities
with them such
as sports and arts. For instance
, children
who do sports with parents
or friends
on a regular basis can improve their physical health. Indeed, a majority of parents
in South Korea try to take their children
to soccer clubs to build their kids' healthy fitness. Children
can also
develop their social skills
by doing team sports since they have to play together with
other friends
. Furthermore
, if children
do artistic activities
such
as drawing, sketching and painting, they will definitely improve their creativities including keeping mental health. Doing arts always helps young people imagine interesting thoughts and feel relaxed and therapeutic.
However
, although
reading with children
is beneficial to develop their imagination or originality, this
might cause serious obesity
. Nowadays, childhood obesity
is a severe problem in our society. If children
read books
with their parents
or friends
all the time at home or school, they can gain a lot of weight. It will lead them to serious obesity
. Interestingly, obesity
can bring other diseases such
as diabetes, and cardiovascular ailments. So parents
should be careful of their children
's reading time. Moreover
, if children
read only books
without communication with friends
or family, they feel isolated. This
means that only reading books
might cause mental illnesses such
as depression. So, it will affect children
in a negative way.
To sum up
, even though reading books
is helpful for children
to have creativity, doing enjoyable activities
is more important since it helps children
to develop overall
skills
and originality.Submitted by lym1049 on
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