Children spend more time watching television than they did in the past Describe some of the advantages and disadvantages of television for children

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Children spend more time watching television than they did in the past. Describe some of the advantages and disadvantages of television for children

With the growth experienced in the media and introduction of several kid friendly programs, there has being an increase in the time children spent with the television. There are limitations as well as compensations for this surge which will be discussed in this essay.

Language learning is the one of the most important in the merits of children watching television. Depending on the language of interest, there are programs and recordings that can be made available for the kids. The likes of Leap frog have really great content for actual learning of alphabets, rhymes, numbers by making children dance in front of their TV sets. Also important in this category are the interactive shows on TV in recent time which are well put together to give a sense of communicating with the kids which helps build their forming minds. Furthermore, kids via TV can be exposed to contents like dancing, exploration, research, art, which could become a passion and even a career. During the outbreak of the novel corona virus and schools had to be closed, in some rural areas, government had to create television programs to reach out to school children without computers.

There is a relationship between the hours spent watching TV and rise in the numbers of obese kids and incidents of bad eye sights. Reason for this is low activity and exposure to flash imagery respectively. Importantly, parents are expected to be the most vigilant and participate the most in watching the programs with the kids because, some contents might be inappropriate depending on the values or morals. Cartoon network in the early 90’s was appropriate for children of all ages and presently, it shows contents for ages 16 and above.

In summary, the disadvantages of excessive TV viewing outweigh the advantages and as such parents or guardians are heaped with the responsibility of watching out for the kids, choosing programs and possibly regulating television time.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, furthermore, really, so, well, in summary, as well as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 8.0 24.0651302605 33% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 41.998997996 119% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.3376753507 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1632.0 1615.20841683 101% => OK
No of words: 320.0 315.596192385 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.1 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.22948505376 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87281846581 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 175.0 176.041082164 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.546875 0.561755894193 97% => OK
syllable_count: 492.3 506.74238477 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 5.43587174349 18% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.2658158309 49.4020404114 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.538461538 106.682146367 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.6153846154 20.7667163134 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.53846153846 7.06120827912 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More 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: 0.205487769686 0.244688304435 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0705875459504 0.084324248473 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0528493187805 0.0667982634062 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.132915440987 0.151304729494 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0411130507749 0.056905535591 72% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 13.0946893788 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 50.2224549098 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 12.4159519038 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.02 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 78.4519038076 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => 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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