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?
There are some traditions that introduce children to the idea of trying hard enough can make it possible for them to achieve anything. This message can be seen as a motivation for children to work hard and a reminder to not be afraid of dreaming big. On the other hand, it can cause children to see a failure entirely as their fault and are not able to accept it.
The first benefit of telling children this concept is the motivation gained to work hard in order to achieve their goals. It is not easy to be consistent and strive to reach a certain aim. Especially for children, they have potential and intent to do a lot of things, but oftentimes don’t try hard because of many distractions and dallies. Therefore, saying that trying hard enough enables them to get a promising result may boost their passion to do their best.
Adding to that, this idea allows children to know that it is possible to dream as high as the sky despite any less supporting circumstances. Not all of them were born in a prosperous family. There are children whose families are not even able to provide food, let alone education and other facilities. Social or political boundaries can also be a challenge. All of this reduces children’s confidence that they can reach a certain goal that seems so far away. This concept, however, restores their belief that nothing is impossible as long as they try hard enough.
Nevertheless, there are some disadvantages to this mindset. Children will put all the blame on themselves when they fail. This happens because they think they didn't try hard enough whereas in reality, they have put maximum efforts. In fact, there are other factors that determine a success, trying hard is just one of them. In other words, failure doesn't always happen because they didn't try hard, it can be because of a certain condition such as health, environment, etc.
In addition, there might be children who are not able to accept failure. This happens due to the idea that they have tried hard, so they expected a success instead of a failure. Similar to the previous discussion, children should be able to accept that trying hard doesn't always mean they will make it, and it is not the only thing someone needs to do to achieve something. There may be some cases that no matter how much work they have put, the circumstances, opportunities, time, and other factors don't allow them to achieve their goals.
In summary, the way children interpret this message is crucial. It brings advantages if the children see it in a way to encourage themselves. In contrast, it comes with disadvantages if the children see it as an absolute or the one and only indicator of achievements.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, nevertheless, so, therefore, whereas, in addition, in contrast, in fact, in summary, such as, in other words, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 13.1623246493 175% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 7.30460921844 192% => OK
Pronoun: 57.0 24.0651302605 237% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 50.0 41.998997996 119% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2234.0 1615.20841683 138% => OK
No of words: 468.0 315.596192385 148% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.7735042735 5.12529762239 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.65116196802 4.20363070211 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64363823975 2.80592935109 94% => OK
Unique words: 218.0 176.041082164 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.465811965812 0.561755894193 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 680.4 506.74238477 134% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 5.43587174349 221% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 16.0721442886 156% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.8700203417 49.4020404114 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.36 106.682146367 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.72 20.7667163134 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.52 7.06120827912 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.38176352705 137% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 8.0 5.01903807615 159% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.67935871743 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 3.9879759519 301% => 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: 0.453985031302 0.244688304435 186% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.134017550558 0.084324248473 159% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0735920258958 0.0667982634062 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.259666001646 0.151304729494 172% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.042234294169 0.056905535591 74% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.4 13.0946893788 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 50.2224549098 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.3001002004 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.39 12.4159519038 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.46 8.58950901804 87% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 78.4519038076 111% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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