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Body 1: Causes Body 1: Time management

+ lack of family attention + underestimate time to complete a task → allow themselves to be
+ desire to be invincible distracted → have a pile of work at the last minute
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Body 2: Effects Body 2: Perfectionism
+ suffering of innocent victims + want perfection → set unreachable goal → fail to meet it → feel
discouraged → lower productivity → cannot complete the task
General The number of children reported to suffer from bullying General “I’ll stop procrastinating…tomorrow.” This is a mindset that
statement rises every year. Teachers and parents are struggling to find statement is possessed by a majority of students today. Although
a resolution for this issue. But what if the key to stopping putting off writing that paper until the night before it is due
Introduction this abusive behavior is understanding the causes? may not seem like a big deal, it has many harmful effects.
Thesis It appears that bullying begins with personal desires or Thesis Understanding the circular reasons behind why we
statement family issues and leads to the increasing number of children statement procrastinate, and their effects, can go a long way in
who suffer from it. helping us overcome it.
Causes: Sometimes a child lacks attention either from their parents Point 1: time A common cause of procrastination is underestimating the
1. Lack or peers, which causes them to seek attention in other management amount of time needed to complete the task at hand;
family places. It makes them act aggressively towards other kids therefore, it results in delay in tasks. Students often allow
attention since supervisors cannot ignore such action, and they attend themselves to get distracted believing that they will have
to the violators. Bullies finally achieve their goal – being ample time later on to finish their work, when in actuality
noticed, which encourages them to continue their faulty and the assumption is a false one. An interrelated belief is
behavior. that delaying will boost their motivation. Unfortunately, the
2. Desire Another reason for such aggressive behavior may result towering stack of work at the last minute is likely to have
to be from a desire to be invincible. Maybe a bully was the exact opposite effect.
invincible humiliated or embarrassed once, and they never wanted to
experience it again. Thus, they do everything possible to
stay the strongest one and be in charge. Not only does it
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protect them, but it gives them a feeling of superiority,
which sometimes becomes addictive.
Effects All the causes mentioned above lead to an increasing Point 2: Chasing perfectionism can also lead to procrastination as it
number of bullies. Whatever the reason is, the primary perfectionism makes people think twice before they want to do anything.
effect is the suffering of the innocent children who become This is because a person is setting a potentially unreachable
victims. Bullies have different reasons for acting like that, goal. And whenever these goals are not met, they become
but sometimes it is no more than an unconscious reaction a tremendous source of discouragement. This, in turn, will
to the environment, just like it happens with family issues. result in lower productivity, and from there is a descent into
a downward spiral. Students’ focus should be on writing the
best paper according to their personal abilities. At the same
time, no one should be satisfied with less than what can be
achieved.
There are a number of reasons for such a widespread phenomenon as It is clear that the cycle of procrastination is a very vicious one. However,
bullying, including attention-seeking, a desire to be superior, and family examining what its causes are and their specific effects helps one recognize
Conclusion
issues. Knowing the causes and effects may help schools and families to the areas that need to be worked on and the beneficial habits that should
develop and implement preventive measures. be developed to counter this harmful practice.