Some people believe that when busy parents do not have a lot of time to spend with their children the best use of that time is to have fun playing games or sports Others believe that it is best to use that time doing things together that are related to sc

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Some people believe that when busy parents do not have a lot of time to spend with their children, the best use of that time is to have fun playing games or sports. Others believe that it is best to use that time doing things together that are related to schoolwork. Which of the two approaches do you prefer?
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

It is common for the modern family that parents don't usually have a lot of time with their children. While some people may hold the idea that busy parents, when they are available, should play games and just having fun with the children. Some, on the other hand, would want to spend that time on children's homework. As I see it, I would prefer the later one since its benefits outweigh the disadvantages. I will list my reasoning as follow.

First of all, it is parents' responsibility to take care of children's schoolworks. Each day, children spend approximately eight hours in the school, yet other time they are at home. Thus, it is obvious that if parents don't deal with children's assignment, they may fail to accomplish what the teachers ask them to do. Take my little brother as an example. Since he is a slower learner, he always needs someone to accompany him to finish his homework. While my parents are at work, I always accompany him till he has it done. There are many times that the homeroom teacher comments on his hard work and thanks us for helping him out. Thus, I believe this mean can also relieve teacher's stress when dealing with students' work.

Next, I believe that children can obtain the motivation to study if parents are around helping them. As we can imagine, if a child loses his parent's love and care, he would become very insecure. The same applies to the situation when children don't get enough caring and attention from their parents. The children may not want to put their efforts into school works which helps nothing in their learning. From my personal experience, I was really lucky to have my parents took care of and checked my homework everyday when I was in elementary school. During that time, I got the feeling that I needed to work harder so my parents would appraise my improvement. So, from my point of view, the motivation for children to study and to advance can be derived from their parents if they are around.

Moreover, the approach of parents spending time with their children to play game is not really helping their children. Although this may help children relax, it turns out wasting time and energy. As children still need to finish their schoolwork, it is better to teach them "first thing first". Plus the fact that children have already get enough exercise at school, more exercise would probably cause injury.

Personally, I feel that parents should spend time to be with their children, especially when they are doing their homework. In one hand, this is parents' responsibility to assure children's learning situation; in another, children will thus gain the attention and care they need to motivate themselves. Also, as playing games or sports is relatively unnecessary, I would choose to spend time doing homework with the child.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, if, may, moreover, really, so, still, thus, while, i feel, first of all, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 15.1003584229 126% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 9.8082437276 204% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 10.0 13.8261648746 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.0286738351 145% => OK
Pronoun: 74.0 43.0788530466 172% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 57.0 52.1666666667 109% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.0752688172 124% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2331.0 1977.66487455 118% => OK
No of words: 483.0 407.700716846 118% => OK
Chars per words: 4.82608695652 4.8611393121 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.68799114503 4.48103885553 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53067968769 2.67179642975 95% => OK
Unique words: 243.0 212.727598566 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.503105590062 0.524837075471 96% => OK
syllable_count: 694.8 618.680645161 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 18.0 9.59856630824 188% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 10.0 3.51792114695 284% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.94265232975 142% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.6003584229 131% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.1344086022 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 29.453224873 48.9658058833 60% => OK
Chars per sentence: 86.3333333333 100.406767564 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.8888888889 20.6045352989 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.81481481481 5.45110844103 70% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.5376344086 108% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 11.8709677419 126% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.88709677419 143% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.337298621725 0.236089414692 143% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100135332544 0.076458572812 131% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0917147407591 0.0737576698707 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.22306603097 0.150856017488 148% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0756424311021 0.0645574589148 117% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.3 11.7677419355 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 71.14 58.1214874552 122% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.6 10.1575268817 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.44 10.9000537634 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.29 8.01818996416 91% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 86.8835125448 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.002688172 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.0537634409 88% => OK
text_standard: 7.0 10.247311828 68% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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