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I am Really Glad.

Thank you for the compliment. I am really glad and satisfied that you praised me, because I have never been praised about my child care. Actually I talked to some people about parts of the seat belt story, but no one praised me.

I am really glad to know your opinion of children's safety in the car. I understand you really have anxiety about it. So, I sense you are a very good teacher and will be a very good mother.

And your writing called up the attitude of other mothers. Almost all mothers around me used baby seats and fastened baby's seat belt, but they didn't use child seats and didn't fasten children's seat belts. I bought two baby seats and three child seats for my only one child. Am I a child seat freak? Anyway, when Takayuki got in their cars, I hoped be would wear his seat belt and sit on his child seat, but depending on the situation sometimes he had no child seat and no seat belt. They said to me that they drove very slow, a grown-up held him, or it was okay because he was between the bigger children on the back seat. I thought it was all nonsense! But I said ''see you'' and I prayed that my child would be back safe and alive. After all, I think that children's safety in the car depends on a severe law and punishment, as you already pointed out.

Finally, I am really really glad that you wrote to me so much.