Children nowadays spend more time on screens and less time doing active or creative things.
Why do you think this is the case?
What measures could be taken to encourage children to spend more time doing active and creative things.
Gone are the days of children riding their bikes without parental supervision, building treehouses and playing street cricket with their neighbourhood friends. The modern child is much more likely to be found indoors glued to a screen. In this essay, I will outline two key factors that are driving this trend and suggest ways youngsters can be redirected towards more physical and creative pursuits.
In my view, the main reason why children spend so much time on their devices these days is simply because there is so much media to consume. Whereas youngsters in the past had to wait for their favourite shows to come on at a certain time, nowadays, thanks to services like Netflix and YouTube, they have access to an unprecedented amount of content. Not only is there more, but the quality is high and variety endless. As such, it can be difficult for children to turn off.
Another factor contributing to the increasingly sedentary nature of young people is the rise in digital technology more broadly. With the internet on their phones, immersive video games on their laptops, not to mention the lure of social media and other addictive apps, children can struggle to disconnect and get out into the real world. Indeed, even primary aged children can be found hunched over their tablets at lunchtime rather than running around or engaging in imaginative play.
To tackle this problem, parents need to play a more pivotal role. The first step is to set firm boundaries around screen time. If they do not, youngsters are unable to draw the line for themselves. Cutting off access to devices or establishing reasonable limits would force children to find another activity to entertain themselves. Regarding physical activity, this too falls to the parents. Given the powerful attraction of screens and devices, parents simply must physically remove their child from the house and model good behaviour themselves. Walking to school and going to the park after class are two easy ways parents can ensure their children are moving.
In conclusion, while screens have always been alluring to children, resistance is now becoming almost impossible. In order to maintain balance for these young people, and to ensure they are exercising both mind and body, it is incumbent on parents to set limits and, more importantly, to set a good example themselves.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Consider using third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'is'.
Suggestion: is
Gone are the days of children riding their bikes...
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Line 2, column 119, Rule ID: MUCH_COUNTABLE[1]
Message: Use 'many' with countable nouns.
Suggestion: many
...hese days is simply because there is so much media to consume. Whereas youngsters in...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, regarding, so, whereas, while, in conclusion, in my view
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 13.1623246493 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 10.4138276553 154% => OK
Relative clauses : 1.0 7.30460921844 14% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 27.0 24.0651302605 112% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 41.998997996 143% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1968.0 1615.20841683 122% => OK
No of words: 389.0 315.596192385 123% => OK
Chars per words: 5.05912596401 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.44106776838 4.20363070211 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60835396721 2.80592935109 93% => OK
Unique words: 237.0 176.041082164 135% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.609254498715 0.561755894193 108% => OK
syllable_count: 596.7 506.74238477 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.76152304609 168% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 16.0721442886 118% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.734512985 49.4020404114 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.578947368 106.682146367 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4736842105 20.7667163134 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.78947368421 7.06120827912 54% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 3.4128256513 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.213696537791 0.244688304435 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0604999686287 0.084324248473 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0315798353745 0.0667982634062 47% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.109771729593 0.151304729494 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0416780518834 0.056905535591 73% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 13.0946893788 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 50.2224549098 119% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.3001002004 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 12.4159519038 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.65 8.58950901804 101% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 78.4519038076 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => 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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