Should we give children enough freedom to make decisions for themselves? Different people have different opinions. Some say yes, while others object because they believe freedom on choices will make children selfish persons. In my point of view, I agree with the former because allowing children to choose for themselves will cultivate their critical thinking and independence.
First of all, learning to make decisions is a necessary means of developing critical thinking for children. Even simple decisions like what to take as dinner will give them good practice to think about their preferences and the accessibility of the food. Gradually, they will learn how to make a compromise and balance the needs and availability. This is a vivid method to let children understand when to make reasonable requests and when to give up. For instance, parents can let younger children choose from either a piece of cake or an extra 30-minute playing time. Both choices are acceptable since the key point is to train children to weigh and balance their desires. An interesting survey done by a Chinese educational organization indicates that compared to those who always follow parents' instructions, children having more chances to make their own decisions are smarter and have better empathy because they are trained to consider and solve issues critically.
Secondly, decision making develops children's independence on their way of growing up. Parents can offer suggestions when there is a necessity; however, it is still the child to select for himself independently. Knowing that they cannot rely on anybody else for choice choosing, children will be more careful with every single decision since they have to be responsible for themselves. In this case, independence is cultivated effectively. For example, a top-rated Chinese TV show named "Where is Daddy" proved this theory. All guests in the show are pairs of father and kid. Fathers are required not to help their children in any decisions for seven days, while children are asked to complete various tasks in the meantime. It is impressive and touching for the audience to observe how these children become mature, responsible and reliable via making decisions independently.
To sum up, I strongly believe that encouraging more freedom to children on self-decision making can help them with not only critical thinking but also becoming independent.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, still, while, for example, for instance, first of all, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 24.0651302605 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 49.0 41.998997996 117% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2040.0 1615.20841683 126% => OK
No of words: 381.0 315.596192385 121% => OK
Chars per words: 5.35433070866 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41805628031 4.20363070211 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87321385282 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 217.0 176.041082164 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.569553805774 0.561755894193 101% => OK
syllable_count: 639.9 506.74238477 126% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 16.0721442886 124% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.4260543427 49.4020404114 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.0 106.682146367 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.05 20.7667163134 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.85 7.06120827912 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.67935871743 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 3.4128256513 176% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.217164286329 0.244688304435 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0653453231549 0.084324248473 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0497976465482 0.0667982634062 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.143375089796 0.151304729494 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0468838056858 0.056905535591 82% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 13.0946893788 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 50.2224549098 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.75 12.4159519038 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.39 8.58950901804 98% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 78.4519038076 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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