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

Can children achieve anything as long as they strive for it enough? It is firmly believed and taught to children in some cultures, but this argument, from my perspective, can contribute to both benefits and detrimental results.

On the one hand, giving children the message that they can realize whatever goals with their enough attempt has several advantages. The overriding benefit is that this approach enhances children's self-confidence and motivation. Telling them about their potential to complete tasks or achieve goals will help them envision a promising picture and enable them to be determined to pursue it with realistic actions, including engaging more time and energy to it and concentrating themselves on it, which will finally contribute to the success. Additionally, it is a fascinating way to encourage them to push their boundaries and surpassing themselves. Their potential capabilities can be aroused.

On the other hand, critics may hold the belief that this behavior exert a negative impact on children. First and foremost, they would not recognize their actual abilities and the things they may not adept at, because there are definitely challenging things they can not accomplish, sometimes even difficult for an adult. If they are repeatedly told they could do that, they will be brainwashed conditioned to trust themselves blindly. However, if after a long time they still find they have failed to achieve their goal, a sense of disappointment and of letting everyone down is likely to appear, which leads them to be skeptical of their abilities and even some mental problems like anxiety or depression. Moreover, it leads to an atmosphere that everyone only knows trying hard instead of thinking outside the box. There are perhaps multiple methods such as asking other for suggestions or looking it from another perspective.

In conclusion, telling children to achieving anything by trying hard is a double-edge sword, with the positive effects of giving them confidence and the guidance of unlocking themselves, but also with the negative impacts on leading them to a possible wrong road.

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Average: 8.4 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, look, may, moreover, so, still, even so, in conclusion, such as, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 10.4138276553 163% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 45.0 24.0651302605 187% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 42.0 41.998997996 100% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1792.0 1615.20841683 111% => OK
No of words: 336.0 315.596192385 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.33333333333 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28139028586 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90495095989 2.80592935109 104% => OK
Unique words: 194.0 176.041082164 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.577380952381 0.561755894193 103% => OK
syllable_count: 547.2 506.74238477 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 79.3437368129 49.4020404114 161% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.0 106.682146367 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.0 20.7667163134 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.71428571429 7.06120827912 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.348234433609 0.244688304435 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.122915101208 0.084324248473 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.102998321824 0.0667982634062 154% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.219616484928 0.151304729494 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0751479228752 0.056905535591 132% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 13.0946893788 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 50.2224549098 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.93 12.4159519038 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.34 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 78.4519038076 122% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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