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.

Extra curricular activities are helpful in child's cognitive development. But, certain people are of the view that such activities are of no use and are a complete wastage of time. I partially agree with the statement. Because, for couple of reasons engaging children in productive activities like swimming or cycling can be helpful in their physical development. This essay shall discuss the reasons why such activities are good and also how their overuse can be harmful.

Productive activities in free time other than studies can help child in developing his mental well being. I will support this idea with two examples; swimming and cycling. Firstly, if a child is taking swimming classes in free time, this particular activity is benefiting him in multiple ways like, learning an important aspect of his life that is, how to build stamina; which in future can help in physical education class in school. Second example is of cycling, which has always been popular among children as well as adults. It helps in toning their muscles, building up of stamina and most importantly learning a mode of transportation. Such activities in free time helps child being more physically strong and resilient. If these activities are conducted under expert supervision, then it may in future pave path for their career as well.

On the other hand, sometimes educational leisure activities can also be beneficial. How? lets discuss it further. When curriculums are being indirectly involved, they tend to show interest in that topic. For instance, my girl who is 4 years old and is not fond of reading, but when she is asked to read in a fun way that is through phonic songs on YouTube, she instantly takes interest and starts learning and hence her reading skills are gets better with little extra effort. Moreover, if they are motivated to learn books related to wild life or marine life, it as a result enhances and sharpens their knowledge regarding different fauna. But the question is, only such activities are enough for child's complete development?

To conclude, extra-curricular activities play a vital role in child's development therefore, it should be a well balanced mix of both physical exertion and education based. Because, if the balance is maintained well, the child certainly will excel more.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, hence, if, may, moreover, regarding, second, so, then, therefore, well, for instance, as a result, as well as, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 13.1623246493 213% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 24.0651302605 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 44.0 41.998997996 105% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.3376753507 144% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1935.0 1615.20841683 120% => OK
No of words: 378.0 315.596192385 120% => OK
Chars per words: 5.11904761905 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40933352052 4.20363070211 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77687690103 2.80592935109 99% => OK
Unique words: 223.0 176.041082164 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.589947089947 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 601.2 506.74238477 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 5.43587174349 184% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.10420841683 238% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 16.0721442886 124% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.9381950011 49.4020404114 125% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.75 106.682146367 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.9 20.7667163134 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.75 7.06120827912 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.01903807615 100% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 8.67935871743 196% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.144361316416 0.244688304435 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0492687387616 0.084324248473 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.037725812476 0.0667982634062 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0913566866557 0.151304729494 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0474001660238 0.056905535591 83% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 13.0946893788 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 50.2224549098 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.4159519038 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.46 8.58950901804 98% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 78.4519038076 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 9.78957915832 77% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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