What is the purpose of homework? All people can agree it is used to reinforce on what did the children learn during school. But is it really helpful for kids do spend time to do homework instead of doing what they should really do? Such as playing outside or learn to help doing chores? That’s look at the advantage and disadvantage of doing homework.
PROs
- Homework obviously helps kids study on what they did they learn during school. It can also some kids research and obtain some useful information which they might not know.
- Homework can also give kids a sense of responsibility; this is a very important thing that can affect kids growth during life. People do not responsibility often fail in life.
- Believe it of not, doing homework can actually be a way of exercising! Doing homework prevent kids from watching TV while eating snack and so forth. Also it is been proven that think can burn off calories.
CONs
- Homework prevents kids to learn and understand many things. For example, a child will never learn what is the true beauty of the nature if he is just sitting on a chair and doing homework all the time.
- Homework can make children to be sick and tired of school, many kids in the world despise school mainly because of homework. School is a very important thing in a kids life since it is the place where all kids’ education is received. Children dislike or even hating go to school can be a very bad thing.
- Homework can do some exercising, but compare to running around outside or playing some sports, the amount of calories burned during sitting on a chair and reading a book is laughable.
- Homework takes out fun out of kids’ life. Who want to sitting in side a beautiful day doing homework in their room instead of playing out side with their friends?
- Homework can also prevent the kids’ social skills. If a child is spending time at his house all day, obviously he is not going to have too many friends compare to the other kids who do play.
- Homework can damage a child’s eye. Now, more and more computer is required the use of a computer, if your child is sitting home all day in front of the computer, his/her eyes is going to be damaged over time and one day will need to wear glasses.
- Homework can make a child becoming what we call a “geek”. Geeks are people who are extremely intelligent but because they are spending home all they studying and doing work, they often do not know the fashion of the world. In a generally speaking, they are people with no lives.
As you can see, homework has more negative effects than positive effect on the children today. The positive aspect of homework can also replace by other things. Homework helps kids studying, but doesn’t studying help kids study even more? Responsibly can be gained through working, you can gain both working experience and responsibly while doing homework at a little cubicle. Homework exercising can be replaced by playing outside because playing burns more fat than doing homework. So if all positive effects of homework can replaced by not doing it, what is the point of doing homework?
