pets
Young children education can be decisive in determining their personality later in life. Some educators believe that taking care of an animal can benefit children’s development to a large extent. Sure, it sounds like a good idea, but to look at this issue more closely, there can be some serious problems associated with pets.
First off, pets can be a real distraction. We’ve all been through childhood. In those formative years, children grow intellectually and emotionally. Learning is a breeze for them because they are at the best years of their lives when memory is in full swing. When a cute puppy is now given to the hands of an eight-year boy, there’s no doubt he’ll be thrilled. And then before you know it, the pet is following his young master around, not leaving his side for one minute. And the boy is now either playing frisbee with his buddy on the lawn or walking him in the park. Sure, it looks quite all right, but he could have spent that time learning to play an instrument, working on a science project or joining a readers’ club. Since raising pets can be rather time-consuming, it’d be a shame to see them taking care of pets at the cost of their own personal growth.
Besides, I think keeping a pet is too much of a responsibility for someone young, let alone gain benefits from it. Children are at this particular stage of life where they have little self-control and cannot behave without supervision from their parents. I once heard it on the radio that a teenager accidentally set a house on fire while his parents were away. I’m not saying children cannot be trusted, but as you can imagine, it’ll be asking too much to expect a child who can barely fend for himself to attend to another living creature. Feeding, bathing and going to a vet takes more than just affection. Instead, proper nursing knowledge and enduring patience are needed. That’s something children might just fall short of. If anything bad happens because of negligence on children’s part, such bad experience would definitely have a negative impact on their future lives.
Admittedly, there are some children who have become somewhat tolerant and responsible by taking care of a pet. Especially for the only child in a family, to keep a pet teaches them to have compassion. But the thing is, we cannot expect such positive effects to last long. As an old Chinese saying goes, children are like the weather in summer, rainy a while ago and then sunny a moment later. How can we expect them to keep it that way? Pets don’t get to live a second time, so let’s not risk it for a sense of responsibility children can develop otherwise, like doing laundry, preparing for dinner or taking out the garbage.
In a word, I’m not against raising pets but I just don’t think it can do much good to children because they could be distracted and unfit for such job.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, first, if, look, second, so, then, while, i think, no doubt, you know
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 15.1003584229 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 9.8082437276 173% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 13.8261648746 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 43.0788530466 97% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 52.1666666667 115% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.0752688172 111% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2421.0 1977.66487455 122% => OK
No of words: 505.0 407.700716846 124% => OK
Chars per words: 4.79405940594 4.8611393121 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74048574033 4.48103885553 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75147499455 2.67179642975 103% => OK
Unique words: 290.0 212.727598566 136% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.574257425743 0.524837075471 109% => OK
syllable_count: 751.5 618.680645161 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 9.59856630824 52% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.86738351254 321% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.6003584229 131% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.2619046791 48.9658058833 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.6666666667 100.406767564 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.7037037037 20.6045352989 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.07407407407 5.45110844103 56% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 11.8709677419 126% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.184165491264 0.236089414692 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.05989481104 0.076458572812 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0971203335771 0.0737576698707 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.120098155484 0.150856017488 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0800627912019 0.0645574589148 124% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.5 11.7677419355 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 58.1214874552 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 10.1575268817 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.5 10.9000537634 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.66 8.01818996416 96% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 86.8835125448 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.002688172 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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