Spanking, or the act of hitting children on their bottoms, is a common punishment in many cultures around the world. However, recently child psychologists have begun questioning whether spanking is a good form of punishment. Although a consensus has yet to be reached, there are a number of advantages to using spanking as a disciplinary tool.
One of the most apparent advantages of spanking is that it helps children understand the difference between right and wrong. Spanking helps children remember that an act is not allowed by creating a psychological association between a particular forbidden act and the traumatic experience of being spanked. In establishing this association, children come to understand what is right and what is wrong.
Additionally, spanking is far more effective than other types of discipline. Unlike time-outs, which remove children from a situation and force them to stay in a quiet area, spanking has been shown to be more effective among children between the ages of three and five. After being spanked, children are much less likely to behave in the same way than if they had simply been put in time-out.
Finally, spanking is an understandable form of punishment. It can be used on nearly any young child. In contrast, young children may not understand that time-outs are punishments. For a young child that does not completely understand situations, a time-out can easily be mistaken for something else-children put in a time-out, for instance, might think that they are being removed from a situation for their own safety or because it is time for a nap. As a result, spanking is a valuable tool for parents to use because the child cannot understand it as anything other than a punishment.
The article and the lecture both discuss the effectiveness of spanking as a way of disciplining of young children. While the article asserts that spanking is a universal and suitable tool to teach children moral behavior, the lecturer opposes this thesis and believe that spanking is neither an effective nor good way of punishment.
First, the article avers that spanking cause children remember which act is bad. It mentions that young children associate painful experience of spanking with bad act, then they try not to repeat that behavior. On the other hand, the professor challenges this point by saying that spanking does not teach children any moral, as it is only a justification. She believes that this is an illogical rule that does not teach kids good or bad acts. She questions how children infer a reasonable conclusion of this illogical punishment.
Second, the reading material posits that spanking is more effective than other punishment such as time-out. It quotes a research to prove its idea for children at age three to five. The professor, however, repudiates this point by mentioning that all studies show that spanking is not effective rather than other punishment, and actually they prove that it is less productive than time-out. She insists that kids will forget the pain of spanking after five minutes, while the effect of time-out punishment last far much more than spanking.
Third, the author states that spanking as an understandable way of punishment is acceptable in all countries. It avers that children understand the meaning of spanking directly and they may misunderstand the purpose of time-out. The lecturer opposes this idea and asserts that spanking is not a universal form of punishment. She avers that parents find the spanking as a simple and quick response to children’s behavior. Parents show their violence in this way and children learn from their parents behavior. As children may imitate this kind of harsh behavior, spanking should not be used by parents to discipline children.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, first, however, if, may, second, so, then, third, while, kind of, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 22.412803532 178% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 5.01324503311 199% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1706.0 1373.03311258 124% => OK
No of words: 330.0 270.72406181 122% => OK
Chars per words: 5.1696969697 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.26214759535 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77675646973 2.5805825403 108% => OK
Unique words: 159.0 145.348785872 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.481818181818 0.540411800872 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 498.6 419.366225166 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.25165562914 320% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.0515239095 49.2860985944 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.352941176 110.228320801 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4117647059 21.698381199 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 7.06452816374 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 4.45695364238 269% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.219834747217 0.272083759551 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0861964242412 0.0996497079465 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0318937867806 0.0662205650399 48% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.142539892061 0.162205337803 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0337501086098 0.0443174109184 76% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.83 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 63.6247240618 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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