Some people say that punishment is the best way to teach children to behave well, while others disagree and point out that rewarding and praising them is better. Discuss both views and give your own opinion.
In the sense of today, there has long been a subject of debate on which one is a better teaching method: punishment or reward and praise. Some believe in the power of punishment which can rapidly decrease a child’s rate of misbehaviors. Others, however, disagree and point out that using praise and reward wisely is much more effective. In this essay, I will discuss the issue in detail and state my opinion.
To begin with, punishment has been considered as a common way for parents and teachers to discipline children for generations. To some extent, punishment is simply the discouragement of bad behavior. This method can solve the problem quickly by making children scared and bring satisfaction to parents and teachers when seeing the kids pay for their wrongdoings. Later on, the kids will remember the lessons since the cost people pay for their mistakes makes the lesson they learned memorable. For instance, if a child is caught telling a lie, the parent will cut down on their pocket money. That is how the child is informed that their behavior is not acceptable, and then knows what not to do in the future. Moreover, punishment teaches the kids how to be responsible for their actions by helping them acknowledge the consequences. The type of punishment depends upon the type of mistakes children have made. There are various ways such as seeing children pick up their drops, clean up the graffiti they drew or apologize to someone they hurt. However, parents and teachers should try to explain and listen to the kids' reasons before deciding whether they deserve the punishment.
As held by the opponent of the debate, praise and reward is believed to be a more effective way to reinforce good behavior. First of all, praise nurtures children’s confidence by showing them how to think positively and be gentle with their mistakes. For example, when a child performs badly on their study, teachers or parents should be tolerant, try to add descriptions and expand on the positive feedback, this gives the child a direction of where they should focus their attention. Thus, the child is more likely to repeat behaviors that ears praise or encourage. Later on, a reward for their good grades is needed since this shows that their efforts will always be worth it and then they are likely to repeat behaviors that earn praise or encouragement. Secondly, it can also improve the relationship between parents or teachers and children. A child being raised in empathy is expected to express love and sharing to the people who always understand and give them a chance to fix their wrongdoings. I prefer praising and rewarding children to punishing as long as parents and teachers know how to use it properly and moderately. I strongly believe that a child who is treated in a nonviolent and tolerant family is more likely to become a kind-hearted person in the future.
To sum up, both punishment and praise have pros and cons but parents should try to look for the times when a child is behaving in positive ways, and start to praise the child’s behaviour.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, look, moreover, second, secondly, so, then, thus, for example, for instance, such as, first of all, to begin with, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 13.1623246493 182% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 31.0 10.4138276553 298% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 15.0 7.30460921844 205% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 39.0 24.0651302605 162% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 65.0 41.998997996 155% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 8.3376753507 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2548.0 1615.20841683 158% => OK
No of words: 523.0 315.596192385 166% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.87189292543 5.12529762239 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.78217453174 4.20363070211 114% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67014179107 2.80592935109 95% => OK
Unique words: 253.0 176.041082164 144% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.483747609943 0.561755894193 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 769.5 506.74238477 152% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 6.0 2.52805611222 237% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 16.0721442886 149% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.1508611726 49.4020404114 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.166666667 106.682146367 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7916666667 20.7667163134 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.45833333333 7.06120827912 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.67935871743 150% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 3.9879759519 251% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.188249975253 0.244688304435 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0595672147699 0.084324248473 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0438151999137 0.0667982634062 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.133262243374 0.151304729494 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0507196890487 0.056905535591 89% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.0946893788 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 50.2224549098 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.97 12.4159519038 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.0 8.58950901804 93% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 78.4519038076 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => 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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