Childhood is an imperative stage where the basic characters of humans are shaped. At younger age, it is easier to teach ethics, and punishment is the best deterrent to help them in learning the difference between what is right and what is wrong. Personally, I completely agree that punishment aids the children in developing better conscience and in this essay, I will outline what kinds of punishment is advisable.
In my view, learning virtues through punishments at younger age has various benefits. First of all, during childhood, children build their basic attributes through experiments. Indeed, they learn what is good and bad through the expressions of their parents. This can be supported by the recent research, where it is proved that most infants develop tantrums based on the way their parents reacted when they flared-up for the first time. If parents punish them during this stage, these children give-up such unruly behavior abruptly. Similarly, unlike teenagers, younger children do not require severe punishments. People at younger age often feel that they are punished even when they are just kept out of their comfort zone. Children, for example, could be punished by not allowing them to watch their favorite television shows. For the grown-ups, however, these punishments would not make a greater impact.
Although I accept that punishment is a significant tool for teaching morality in young children, I strongly believe that these punishments should not involve physical harassments. Children should be made to learn their mistakes through guilty conscience rather than through pain or fear. Ignorance, for instance, has huge impact on children and helps them to assess their mistakes better. Instead, if they are given harsh punishments such as beating, these children do not learn principle values and rather restrain from committing mistakes due to fear. Thus, gentle punishments have the right effect on younger people.
In conclusion, learning moral values at younger age helps people to shape-up their basic characteristics and require less-severe punishments. I, personally, feel that gentle punishments make greater impact on people as they help them to understand ethical values.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, similarly, so, thus, for example, for instance, in conclusion, such as, first of all, in my view
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 24.0651302605 162% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 41.998997996 98% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1877.0 1615.20841683 116% => OK
No of words: 345.0 315.596192385 109% => OK
Chars per words: 5.44057971014 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3097767484 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75322651605 2.80592935109 98% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 176.041082164 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.547826086957 0.561755894193 98% => OK
syllable_count: 539.1 506.74238477 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 5.43587174349 166% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 16.0721442886 118% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.1172433068 49.4020404114 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.7894736842 106.682146367 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1578947368 20.7667163134 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.36842105263 7.06120827912 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 3.9879759519 201% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.377318945162 0.244688304435 154% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.119807730761 0.084324248473 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0816876502881 0.0667982634062 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.250875364364 0.151304729494 166% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0985019947351 0.056905535591 173% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 13.0946893788 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 50.2224549098 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.98 12.4159519038 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.74 8.58950901804 102% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 78.4519038076 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => 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: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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