It is important for children to learn the difference between right and wrong at an early age. Punishment is necessary to help them learn this distinction. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion? What sort of punishment should parents and teachers be allowed to use to teach good behaviour to children?
Learning the difference between right and wrong at an early age is essential for children’s growth and development. While some people claim that punishment is an effective way to ensure them to do the right thing, I personally believe it is not necessarily a good method of teaching children good values.
First of all, punishment might hurt a child’s feelings and thereby create negative impact on its heart and soul. Little kids don’t know any better, so grown-ups need to be more forgiving. For example, if children say inappropriate words, it would be better for parent or teacher to tell them it is not right to use those words, explain to help them truly understand why that behaviour is wrong. If a kid does something wrong out of innocence, blindly grounding him or order him to stand in a corner will only make the child even more confused and plan the seed of hatred which is not healthy for their growth.
Secondly, punishment is not as humane or effective as education is. Parents and teachers should set good examples for children to follow. Children need proper guidance. Recent reseach shows that 80% of children who receive guidance and advise from their parents are often regarded as good students and behave in a good demeanour. In contrast, punished children are more likely to resent it and behave badly as a way to release the stress from punishment.
Despite such benefits, some proponents claim that punishment is something that every child has to be through on the way to become a good person. In fact, punishment should be based on reason. It has to be light, and not too harsh. And it must serve the purpose of education. For example, a child breaking a glass should be asked to replace it. He or she should be encouraged to earn money to buy a new glass by helping their parents do the housework. This kind of punishment should be promoted as it is reasonable while effectively sending the message that everyone must be responsible for all of their mistakes.
In conclusion, punishing children is not what parents and teachers should consider as a top priority. Guiding and making the positive message clear to them matters above all else.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, if, second, secondly, so, while, as to, for example, in conclusion, in contrast, in fact, kind of, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 13.1623246493 167% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 7.85571142285 165% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 10.4138276553 163% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 24.0651302605 125% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 41.998997996 98% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 8.3376753507 168% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1819.0 1615.20841683 113% => OK
No of words: 375.0 315.596192385 119% => OK
Chars per words: 4.85066666667 5.12529762239 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40055868397 4.20363070211 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6982344845 2.80592935109 96% => OK
Unique words: 208.0 176.041082164 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.554666666667 0.561755894193 99% => OK
syllable_count: 548.1 506.74238477 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.384769539078 0% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 16.0721442886 124% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.8815998309 49.4020404114 111% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.95 106.682146367 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.75 20.7667163134 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.9 7.06120827912 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.9879759519 176% => OK
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: 0.29199603268 0.244688304435 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0832917074828 0.084324248473 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0825347986305 0.0667982634062 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.165976858831 0.151304729494 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0793119516106 0.056905535591 139% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 13.0946893788 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 50.2224549098 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.3001002004 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.85 12.4159519038 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.9 8.58950901804 92% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 78.4519038076 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => 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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