Smacking children is the best form of discipline. To what extent do you agree or disagree.

Children need a fair number of rules and discipline to prevent unruly behaviour. Quite a few parents believe that the best way to raise children is by corporal punishment. In my opinion, I strongly disagree that striking children is the best method to enforce discipline.

Some parents believe that using power and force can maintain the child's behaviour and leave a long-lasting impact. After all, children are naive and wild and can become easily misled if given any hint of the wrong path. Others may think that children need to learn respect and proper behaviour through fear and punishment; for example, to teach them that life provides harsh consequences when the rules are broken. Furthermore, perhaps these types of parents were themselves beaten when they were young, and therefore do not know of any other manner to raise their own children. Thus, it is understandable why some people agree that physical punishment offers the greatest solution to control children.

However, the idea that beating children is the best way to enforce discipline is completely preposterous. The punishment must fit the crime but for a child, who has little to no concept of right or wrong, the consequences must be lenient. These beatings often come with little to no explanation; therefore, the child does not understand why his or her actions were wrong, and only sees the violence that can leave a long-lasting psychological, or even physical, mark. Furthermore, there is a blurry line between discipline by force and physical abuse, which can eventually lead to traumatized and damaged individuals in the future. For instance, several adults with depression have cited domestic abuse dating back to their childhoods. There are plenty of alternative methods for controlling a child's behaviour that does not involve striking; for example, taking away a favourite toy or imposing a ban on video games for a certain period.

In conclusion, while physical punishment is an understandable viewpoint of many parents, it is not the perfect solution to disciplining children and offers more disadvantages than benefits.

Votes
Average: 8.9 (1 vote)

Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion:
... on video games for a certain period. In conclusion, while physical punishment...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, furthermore, however, if, may, so, therefore, thus, while, after all, for example, for instance, in conclusion, in my opinion

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 10.4138276553 163% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 7.30460921844 178% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 41.998997996 74% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.3376753507 120% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1780.0 1615.20841683 110% => OK
No of words: 338.0 315.596192385 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.26627218935 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28774723029 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91441593538 2.80592935109 104% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 176.041082164 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.594674556213 0.561755894193 106% => OK
syllable_count: 545.4 506.74238477 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.2068824652 49.4020404114 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.666666667 106.682146367 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.5333333333 20.7667163134 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.66666666667 7.06120827912 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 3.9879759519 251% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.122682711245 0.244688304435 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0471433005896 0.084324248473 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0503004063502 0.0667982634062 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0847198460664 0.151304729494 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0608231868051 0.056905535591 107% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 13.0946893788 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 50.2224549098 98% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.58 12.4159519038 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.89 8.58950901804 103% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 78.4519038076 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 9.78957915832 77% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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