Some people believe that children should spend all of their free time with their families.
Others believe that this is unnecessary or even negative. Discuss the possible arguments on both
sides, and say which side you personally support.
Nobody can deny that parental influence is important for children, at least in cases where
children live with their parents, foster parents or guardians. However, it is by no means clear that
children should spend time exclusively in the family, as we will see.
On the one hand, it may appear advisable for parents to act as role models and to establish
ground rules for behaviour by spending as much time as possible with their children. This allows the
youngsters to absorb conventions and codes of conduct which they can then follow themselves,
hopefully leading to an absence of problems such as bullying, truancy and delinquency later on.
Furthermore, being with the family should reduce the risk of children falling victim to crimes such as
abduction, or coming under the influence of negative peer pressure.
On the other hand, we have to ask whether this is a practical proposition. In a society where
many families are dual-income, or where one parent’s role as breadwinner means he/she is away
from the family for long periods, it is inevitable that children cannot spend all of their time with the
family. Child-minding and after-school childcare are often used in these cases, and if managed
properly, these can be perfectly viable alternatives. Equally, it seems that children can in some cases
learn a considerable amount from their peers in addition to adults, and allowing them to play without
direct supervision may be a benefit.
To conclude, it appears that, while family time is essential for bonding and absorbing
patterns of behaviour, there are definite advantages when children are outside the family too. This is
provided that they are in a safe, well-behaved environment with peers who are themselves
reasonably well brought-up.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
furthermore, however, if, may, so, then, well, while, at least, in addition, such as, in some cases, on the other hand
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 : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 7.30460921844 164% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 24.0651302605 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 39.0 41.998997996 93% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1509.0 1615.20841683 93% => OK
No of words: 287.0 315.596192385 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.25783972125 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11595363751 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85508551747 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 176.041082164 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.606271777003 0.561755894193 108% => OK
syllable_count: 458.1 506.74238477 90% => 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: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 16.0721442886 68% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 26.0 20.2975951904 128% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 43.5802669728 49.4020404114 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 137.181818182 106.682146367 129% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.0909090909 20.7667163134 126% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.7272727273 7.06120827912 152% => OK
Paragraphs: 20.0 4.38176352705 456% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.19054611468 0.244688304435 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0700497287313 0.084324248473 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0422789741267 0.0667982634062 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0545422240341 0.151304729494 36% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0695924399871 0.056905535591 122% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.4 13.0946893788 125% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 50.2224549098 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.3001002004 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.52 12.4159519038 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.66 8.58950901804 112% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 78.4519038076 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 9.78957915832 138% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.1190380762 123% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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