Children from age 7-11 now spend more time watching television and/or playing video games than before. What are effects of this on children families and society? What are possible solutions to this problem?
Children are more agile, impulsive, fun-loving and do various activities for amusement but due to urbanization, juveniles kill maximum hours glued to the idiot box or video games on the cost of playing or socializing. There is no doubt saying the fact, it is detrimental for both family as well as society. This essay provides clearer view on the effects and provides some possible solutions to tackle this problem.
To begin with, it is rightly said that ‘Television has changed the child from an irresistible force to an immovable object.’ There are multifarious negative effects of passive activities such as watching TV and playing video games. Firstly, it hampers holistic development and social relations. To enumerate, 7-11 years is a crucial period of childhood after which children step into adolescence. This is the time when children develop the maximum, physically as well as mentally. The more time children spend on watching TV and playing video games, the less time they have for studying, exploring, playing and interacting with parents and friends. As a result communication has come down drastically within the family and even among children of the neighborhood. In addition, such amusements put health at stake, as excessive TV viewing can result in obesity as kids are in¬active and tend to eat junk food while watching TV. Consequently, it turns children into couch potatoes. What is more, violence on TV should not be watched by children.
It is irrefutable that TV is one of the best ways to entertain and inform and even playing video games introduces children to technology which is the need of the hour. However, all this is good in moderation as there are lots of active ways of entertainment such as playing games or doing sports, which are actually much healthier. Moreover, children need interaction with the family and society for their holistic development.
The solutions are simple but the onus is largely on the parents. They should give quality time to their children and limit their TV viewing hours and time to play video games. Outdoor activities should be encouraged and neighborhood societies should be formed where children can play outdoor games. Parks should be maintained properly so that children have a safe place to play outdoors.
To summarize, there is no doubt that, television and video games, in moderation, can be a good thing. However, excess of everything is bad and therefore parents should set viewing limits to ensure children do not spend too much time watching TV.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Probable usage error. Use 'and' after 'both'.
Suggestion: and
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, consequently, first, firstly, however, if, moreover, so, therefore, well, while, in addition, no doubt, such as, as a result, as well as, to begin with, what is more
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 13.1623246493 182% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 10.4138276553 211% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 24.0651302605 75% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 41.998997996 107% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.3376753507 144% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2136.0 1615.20841683 132% => OK
No of words: 415.0 315.596192385 131% => OK
Chars per words: 5.14698795181 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.51348521516 4.20363070211 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8633725916 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 215.0 176.041082164 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.518072289157 0.561755894193 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 645.3 506.74238477 127% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 16.0721442886 131% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.8153506562 49.4020404114 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.714285714 106.682146367 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7619047619 20.7667163134 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.57142857143 7.06120827912 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.380120187327 0.244688304435 155% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.106339019158 0.084324248473 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0631964151882 0.0667982634062 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.198907154203 0.151304729494 131% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0614535710579 0.056905535591 108% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 13.0946893788 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 50.2224549098 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.59 12.4159519038 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.54 8.58950901804 99% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 78.4519038076 133% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 9.78957915832 158% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => 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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