It is believed that learning by playing is more beneficial for school students after school lessons instead of doing additional activities. While this trend offers a number of benefits, I contend that children will acquire less knowledge unless they approach more specifically without getting distracted by games.

It is thought that games play more crucial role in academic development of schoolchildren after the lessons in contrast to extra-curriculum activities for some reasons. First and foremost, they will be able to enhance their social skills while playing games with their peers. They will learn how to work in groups efficiently without reading about it when they spend time playing various mental and physical games such as football, basketball, puzzles, and to name but a few. After that, children will find it easier to overcome their introverted personality which helps them get along with strangers at the beginning of the conversation. Another positive factor is that playing games freely after school can ensure stability in children's overall health. When they return home after taking mentally overwhelming lessons at school, children should do some physical activities including outdoor and indoor sports games. By doing so, they will relief stress and fresh up their mind on time so that they can allocate the rest of their daytime hours to household chores and other important tasks actively. For example, most parents in my neighborhood have already started supporting their children to play outside for longer hours with their friends instead of urging them to stay home to do homework.

Nevertheless, I believe that it would be better if children spend more time participating after school lessons or do homework at home to achieve their future goals. One of the reasons behind this view is the role of playing freely as a barrier that children may experience while striving for their main purposes. Simply put, teenagers may spend much more time on those free-time activities without thinking about their academic and family duties unless they are carefully controlled by their parents. Additionally, facing occasional health injuries during games or the risk of being kidnapped in the street will, probably, make life more difficult for the children before they become mature enough to take care of themselves. Clearly, they will have to stay in hospital for longer period when children harm their body parts accidentally or feel difficulty in socializing with others after they are bullied by kidnappers. Experiencing these unexpected situations, students will not only start lagging behind their schoolmates in many school subjects, but they also will grow up as an antisocial adult in the future. As a real life example, I had to take monthly medical treatments after having a serious back pain while playing basketball with my classmates in my school years which made me wait for graduating from the school a year later.

In conclusion, while I can understand why it sounds important for children to have playtime hours after school, I agree that they will get more negative experience from spending hours doing these activities such as being distracted in studying school subjects and having accidental injuries that may take much time to be healed.