In many countries, young people are granted certain privileges and responsibilities at the age of sixteen. Clearly, parents have a responsibility to both care for and prepare their children as they approach this important milestone.
To what degree should parents intervene in the lives of their 14-15 years old children?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
You should write at least 250 words.
It is observed that in many nations, the age of sixteen marks an important transitioning phase of greater degree of independence for youngsters. Undoubtedly parents need to look after and guide their adolescents as they are given specific novel responsibilities and rights. However, there is a limit to parental intervention in the lives of the 14-15-year-olds.
On one hand, parents’ approach to instructing their children should be both flexible and strict, allowing children to voice their own opinions whilst still exerting a constructive influence over their decisions. The first aspect requires coaching is the skill to rank priorities according to their significance. For instance, adolescents may negotiate the time they spend on school work and social events, but should they fail to keep up with school, punishments such as being grounded on weekends until the desired scores are attained should be implemented. Another important area that parents need to prepare their children for is making sensible financial decisions. For example, young children could be given weekly allowances and taught to use price-comparison websites to buy the things they need at the best price.
On the other hand, there are important notes to how far should parents of 14, 15 year old children interfere with their lives. To begin with, they should not impose their own preferences onto their children. For instance, the decisions regarding field of specialisation, career orientation or relationships with other people should not be the reflection of the parents’ preferences but the children’s will. Putting children under absolute obligation to please the parents may cause an increasing sense of resentment among children towards the older authority figures, which may catalyze them to adopt an anti-social and rebellious behavior to express their independence.
In conclusion, to prepare for a new mark of higher degree of freedom and responsibilities, parental instructions are indispensable. However, it is important to maintain a balance between the parents’ opinions and their children’s own perspectives to get the best outcomes.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 641, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...m to adopt an anti-social and rebellious behavior to express their independence. ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, look, may, regarding, so, still, for example, for instance, in conclusion, such as, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 7.85571142285 178% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 7.30460921844 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 24.0651302605 87% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 41.998997996 117% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 8.3376753507 156% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1841.0 1615.20841683 114% => OK
No of words: 326.0 315.596192385 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.6472392638 5.12529762239 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24917287072 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.32399437615 2.80592935109 118% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 176.041082164 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.58282208589 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 542.7 506.74238477 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.2810005278 49.4020404114 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.5 106.682146367 123% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.2857142857 20.7667163134 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.0714285714 7.06120827912 143% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => 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: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.310953674341 0.244688304435 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.109094737115 0.084324248473 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.045712836366 0.0667982634062 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.186515745488 0.151304729494 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.029074270836 0.056905535591 51% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.8 13.0946893788 128% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 50.2224549098 79% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.3001002004 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.79 12.4159519038 127% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.23 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 78.4519038076 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => 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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