It is important for children to learn the difference between right and wrong at an early age. Punishment is necessary to help them learn this distinction.
To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?
What sort of punishment should parents and teachers be allowed to use to teach good behaviour to children?
There are noticeable efforts in educating children right and wrong. One of those includes the employ of punishment as a method of emphasizing the distinction. This approach has both pros and cons, which will be discussed below.
On the one hand, through generations, punishment has gradually become a superior method of teaching children discipline. It is considered as an effective way applied by educators and parents whenever the kids have aggressive behaviour. The punishment can vary from a short detention after school, in which students may be gathered in a classroom to do some extra exercises or homework, to a longer detention conducted by parents, such as the prohibition of phones in a few days or weeks, or freedom restriction. These actions prove to have a positive impact in certain cases. However, with some rebellious teenagers, these types of punishments mentioned above may bring negative effects. Children at this age may think of solutions against these punishments, such as sneaking out with friends, or worse, they try to steal the phone back from their teachers or parents. Furthermore, when it comes to penalising, some parents, especially the father, have a tendency to use violent penalties, namely hitting or, sometimes, slapping in the face. These cases have been reported in some remote areas in poor or developing countries like South Africa or Vietnam.
Therefore, it can be seen that punishments may be useful in particular circumstances and children, but the effective of this method should not be generalized in every situation. Instead, there should be clear guidelines for educators and parents to apply appropriate punishments to kids. As listed above, some penalties like a short detention, in which parents or teachers allow the kids to review their schoolwork, housework or do some volunteer work, should be promoted as it not only encourages children to learn morality and social values but also acts as an intermediary in helping children to recognize the moral sense. Furthermore, punishments such as restriction of freedom and phones may be employed but need careful consideration in accordance with the children's actual personality, to extend or shorten the period of detention.
In sum, I believe punishments are useful in certain circumstances, but it requires a thorough consideration of the adults before actually implementing any type of punishment since every child has a distinct personality. The type of punishments listed above may be suitable for some children but not all.
Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, furthermore, however, may, so, therefore, in particular, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 7.85571142285 165% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 10.4138276553 221% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 24.0651302605 75% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 41.998997996 145% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 8.3376753507 192% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2134.0 1615.20841683 132% => OK
No of words: 401.0 315.596192385 127% => OK
Chars per words: 5.3216957606 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.47492842339 4.20363070211 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.0663847047 2.80592935109 109% => OK
Unique words: 225.0 176.041082164 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.561097256858 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 669.6 506.74238477 132% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.76152304609 168% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 75.6368577881 49.4020404114 153% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.529411765 106.682146367 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5882352941 20.7667163134 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 7.06120827912 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 3.9879759519 276% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.21774235305 0.244688304435 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0700010792569 0.084324248473 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0410250104202 0.0667982634062 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.137992929749 0.151304729494 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0305773902737 0.056905535591 54% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 13.0946893788 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 50.2224549098 79% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.3001002004 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.87 12.4159519038 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.46 8.58950901804 110% => OK
difficult_words: 119.0 78.4519038076 152% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, furthermore, however, may, so, therefore, in particular, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 7.85571142285 165% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 10.4138276553 221% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 24.0651302605 75% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 41.998997996 145% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 8.3376753507 192% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2134.0 1615.20841683 132% => OK
No of words: 401.0 315.596192385 127% => OK
Chars per words: 5.3216957606 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.47492842339 4.20363070211 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.0663847047 2.80592935109 109% => OK
Unique words: 225.0 176.041082164 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.561097256858 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 669.6 506.74238477 132% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.76152304609 168% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 75.6368577881 49.4020404114 153% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.529411765 106.682146367 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5882352941 20.7667163134 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 7.06120827912 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 3.9879759519 276% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.21774235305 0.244688304435 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0700010792569 0.084324248473 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0410250104202 0.0667982634062 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.137992929749 0.151304729494 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0305773902737 0.056905535591 54% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 13.0946893788 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 50.2224549098 79% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.3001002004 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.87 12.4159519038 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.46 8.58950901804 110% => OK
difficult_words: 119.0 78.4519038076 152% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.