Today parents are concerned about their children's relaxation more than ever. Many parents hold the opinion that their kids's recreation is literally time-wasting without educational content and methods. I strongly agree with this statement. In the following essay, I will discuss in detail the benefits and advantages of educational leisure programmes for children.
Based on my own experience, I think parents should help their children choose academic relaxation activities rather than give their kids the freedom to spontaneously decide how they spend their spare time because of the following reasons. Firsly, it is obvious that kids lack of the capabilities to distinguish which leisure activities are suitable to them. Most children choose a certain extra-curricular activity because they think it is hectic and exciting or the activity is popuraly played by many of their friends . Sadly, children cannot be aware of the negative effects from the activity they choose. For instant, lots of kids enjoy playing computer games without noticing that computer-game additon might lead to laziness and procrastination in their suty. Secondly, eduactional activities, which help children have fun and get educated simultaneously, can significantly stimulate children's personality development because researchers prove that children have great ability of learning and absorbing knowledge while playing. Thirdly, educational relaxation programmes enable parents to supervise their kids' spare time and to protect their children's lives from bad effects caused by unhealthy leisure activities.
However, the market providing academic recreation to kids is a bit saturated with numerous options and places. Many programmes are of low quality with unthotough organization. Therefore, in order to maximize the effectiveness of educational relaxation activities, parents should spend time and efforts in searching for appropriate offers and programmes. As far as I have concerned, there is another draw-back of academic recreation is that those activities are offered at high prices, which may cause difficulty for parents with lower income to afford a good programme for their children.
On the whole, I believe eduactional entertainment activities play an important role in the personality developing process of every child. In the future, there should be more academic leisure programmes offered at lower price so that more children can get easier partipation.