双边讨论类大作文，文化类话题
Some people believe children should have organized activities in their free time. Others believe children should decide what to do in their free time on their own. Discuss both sides and give your opinion.
题目大意
一些人认为孩子们应该在空闲时间做规划好的活动。其他人认为，孩子们应该自己决定在空闲时间做什么。讨论双方并给出你的意见。
思路解析
这道题目所需要讨论的内容非常贴近我们的成长经历。我们大多数在成长过程中都会遇到这样的问题：周末或者放假了我们想自己安排时间（多数就是去玩了）。而爸妈总想着帮我们报个班或者去参加些活动项目，他们会觉得只要我们在家就是无所事事浪费时间。
于是这样的矛盾几乎伴随了从孩子到成年的十多年的成长过程。
那回到题目本身，既然是两方面都要讨论，先说下老师的观点：
如果完全视乎儿童是一个怎样的人，而要组织青少年的一举一动可能不是一个好主意。但完全让他们决定做什么也是不理性的。
对于家长来说，会希望给孩子做这样的安排，因为从家长来看：孩子们还不够成熟，他们没有足够的决定力和控制力，所以空闲时间太多时候容易放纵自己为所欲为，这也就可能会带来更多麻烦或不好的结果。
但是，给孩子做一个完全规划好的安排会带来一些问题。首先，这样一个安排其实只适合一些极度缺乏自律的青少年，因为他们很容易沉迷于电子游戏、电视或没完没了的派对，所以需要外部力量来避免这些问题；
而在大多数情况下，这样的安排会让孩子觉得被约束，只会让他们变得叛逆，也就是你越让我做什么我偏不。
而且，大家有没有想过，一个被完全安排好的时间还能称为“free time”吗？这是不是从根本上违背了“free time”的定义。
举一个极端的例子：诺贝尔文学奖作家的小说“钢琴家”(La Pianiste)中描述的场景，主人公选择与她的一个学生陷入可怕而神经质的爱情来反叛母亲长期过度的控制。
那我们在来聊聊看，如果让孩子自由地安排他们的空闲时间的好处和坏处有哪些？
如果孩子本身愿意培养爱好且有足够的自控力，那这样的想法是合理的。因为这样的孩子很清楚如何充分利用这段时间，他们可以学会独立，判断哪些是有益的且是自己想做的事情，并且付诸行动。
但是，对大多数孩子来说，这是很难的。从人性的角度来说，人们天生就想呆在舒适的环境中，如果不用外力去干涉，他们很可能会懒惰、沉迷娱乐，或者选择做一些挑战性较小的事情。
孩子其实会比成年人更不成熟，也更不理性。因此当他们可以随意自行决定安排，那他们会很容易把自己搞得一团糟。
提纲
范文示例
To assess whether children’s activities in their free time should be organized by others or be decided by themselves, I might have to say that the conclusion depends entirely on what kind of person a child is. It might not be a good idea to organize every move of the adolescents, but to totally let them decide what to do freely is also irrational.
To implement a well-organized schedule for the next generation in their free time may raise some problems. It may be understandable for some, especially parents, to advocate for this schedule; from their perspective, children are still not mature enough to make their own decision, and once they have too much freedom to do whatever they want in their leisure time, they may get involved in troubles. I know that there is certainly no need for parents to over-react like this, but knowing what a child means to nowadays families, it would be somehow reasonable why they would try so hard to avoid any uncertainty by making everything controllable. The truth is, however, that such a tightly-organized system may only fit for some juveniles who are extremely lack of self-discipline and are easy to indulge in things like video games, TVs or endless parties; in most cases, fully supervising all children’s activities may only let them become rebellious, feeling the constraint all the time, since this has totally violated what is supposed to be the “free time”, and an extreme case in point may be akin to the scenario depicted in “La Pianiste” , a novel written by a writer awarded by Nobel, where the protagonist chooses to get involved in macabre and neurotic love with one of her students in rebellion against the long-term, excessive control from her mother.
The problem of over-control the activities in children’s free time may be a pressing one, but it is also not wise to make children arrange their free time as freely as they can. The supporters of this, namely many children themselves, may presume that they can learn to be independent during this process since they may choose to do something meaningful to them without assistance or limitation. For the ones who are most willing to cultivate a hobby and have enough self-control, such an idea is somewhat acceptable, since children like this know exactly how to make full use of this time and they are always aware of the boundaries, but I might have to say that this is unlikely to happen after knowing the human nature. People are hard-wired to stay in a comfortable environment, and if there are no proper regulations on their behaviors, chances are that they avoid hardship and opt to do less challenging things, being indolent and indulged in entertainment only. This type of natural law couldn’t be even truer when applied to the young generation, who would be much more immature and much less rational than the adult. Should they be entitled to decide their leisure activities on their own without any limitation, it would be obvious how they may mess up themselves.
In conclusion, I would say that reality should be somewhere lying in the middle. On the one hand, supervisors should not over-control children by organizing their free-time activities; on the other hand, it is also not reasonable to fully delegate the arrangement to children.
