People whose parents were very strict often treat their own children the same way.
I’m a very hard-working person, partly because I believe that (1) ___ you work hard, you will never succeed in life. My sister is the same. As a result, I never relax during the week and (2) ___ does she. I think we are like this because of our parents, who have big plans for our future and make sure we work hard. They probably think this is the only way to bring (3) ___ children, but perhaps if they were less demanding, we (4) ___ have more time to relax and take things slowly.
The situation is made more difficult by our teachers. In my opinion, they always give us too (5) ___ homework, and we just don’t get (6) ___ free time to enjoy ourselves. As a result, the weekends are the only time (7) ___ we can do what we like. Then we can watch television, (8) ___ swimming and meet our friends.
I think that if I have children when I’m older, I (9) ___ be a more relaxed parent, because I think that children (10) ___ are made to work too hard are often stressed and grow up to be very unhappy.