In some cultures children are often told that they can achieve anything if they try hard enough What are the advantages and disadvantages of giving children this message

In several cultures, children are often told that they can achieve any goal as long as they make great efforts. In my opinion, giving children this message could have both merits and demerits.

On the one hand, this could be advantageous. To begin with, telling children that “Hard work paid off” could boost their motivation. In terms of explanation, children would be more resolute in pursuing their dreams as they suppose that diligence guarantees success. Take Cristiano Ronaldo, the world’s best soccer player as an example. Without persistence and intensive training, the undernourished boy whose origin was from a humble family could hardly become today’s greatest footballer. Therefore, thanks to the given message, children would be motivated to strive hard for their goals. Another benefit of giving children the message that diligence creates success is raising youngsters’ positivism. To be more specific, since believing that they will gain achievements provides that they are industrious, children might be more determined in chasing their dreams. Moreover, they are prompted to look on the bright side more frequently, especially when encountering hardships. Thus, within this message, children could build a positive attitude as well as self-confidence.

On the other hand, it is undeniable that giving children the idea that constantly making efforts creates achievements might also have significant drawbacks. Firstly, it could place great pressure on children. To illustrate, due to the belief that: “Hard work is the mother of success”, a child might unconsciously push itself hard to achieve its target. Meanwhile, there is a wide range of other factors that contribute to great achievements besides industriousness, such as luck and self-reflection. Consequently, children might suffer from unwanted frustration and serious self-doubts for ascribing their failures to insufficient efforts. Secondly, this message could make the young set unrealistic goals. To clarify, since having unmindfully absorbed the message that diligence forms success, children might firmly assume that any target is attainable if they work hard. In the long run, this could lead to youngsters’ pointless efforts accomplishing unrealistic goals.

In conclusion, inspirational as it might sound, telling children that striving hard for their goals will certainly bring success could be both advantageous and disadvantageous. On the positive side, it could reinforce children’s motivation and self-confidence. However, children might suffer from anxiety and pursue unrealistic targets as a consequence of this message.

Votes
Average: 7.3 (1 vote)

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, consequently, first, firstly, however, if, look, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, well, while, in conclusion, such as, as well as, in my opinion, to begin with, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 22.0 7.85571142285 280% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
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: 39.0 41.998997996 93% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.3376753507 144% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2258.0 1615.20841683 140% => OK
No of words: 388.0 315.596192385 123% => OK
Chars per words: 5.81958762887 5.12529762239 114% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43821085614 4.20363070211 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.14304097294 2.80592935109 112% => OK
Unique words: 216.0 176.041082164 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.556701030928 0.561755894193 99% => OK
syllable_count: 645.3 506.74238477 127% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 16.0 4.76152304609 336% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 16.0721442886 143% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.2975951904 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.2379057643 49.4020404114 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.1739130435 106.682146367 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.8695652174 20.7667163134 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.30434782609 7.06120827912 132% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 8.67935871743 207% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.329902475887 0.244688304435 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100076959691 0.084324248473 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0686273942861 0.0667982634062 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.245472427354 0.151304729494 162% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0897321237888 0.056905535591 158% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 13.0946893788 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.78 50.2224549098 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.18 12.4159519038 130% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.74 8.58950901804 102% => OK
difficult_words: 106.0 78.4519038076 135% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 9.78957915832 66% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.1190380762 83% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => 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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