I visited my amazing friends Yama chan & Kanji today.
（ゆうちゃん、Her name is YOU) チョーーーーーかわいい二人
（生まれてたった３週間の勝利君、His name is KATSUTOSHI. IT means VICTORY, his middle name also)
去年の１０月には岐阜小学校のPTAの講演会で「子育て」について話したんだけど。
I spoke at an elementary school in Gifu last October about bringing up children, for the PTA parents.
まだ結婚してなし、子供も生んだ事はないし、子育てもしたことはありません。
I haven't got married yet, I haven't had kids, and I've never raised kids.
なのに５０分近くも講演会で話してた私だけど、さすがに目の前で子育てを見ていると「子育てって本当に大変だな～」なんて思っちゃう。
Yet somehow I managed to speak about 50 minutes. However, when you watch kids being brought up right in front of you, you can't help but think "Oh my gosh, raising kids must be such hard work".
アーティストを目指している私に子育てなんて出来るのかな？なんてね。
How is a girl like me trying to be an artist ever going to be able to raise kids??
だって、仕事みたいに「やっぱり私はこれに向いてない」って思ってやめたりなんてできないもんね？
I mean, you can't just quit it like a job saying "Oh it wasn't for me".
でも、最近お母さんとかおばちゃんとかと話してるんだけど、やっぱり自分の子供となると、今まで自分の中にはなかったような想像を絶する熱い愛が赤ちゃんと同時に生まれるんだってね。
But I've been discussing this kind of thing with my mum and my aunties lately, and apparently when it's your own kid, you end up having all this incredible love that you never knew you had as you have your baby.
だからちょっと安心したわ。
So I was a little relieved.
講演会で、メインポイントとして私なりのアドバイスで言ったのはこれ：
The main point I spoke at the conference was this:
一番子供の為になる事は夫婦の愛し合ってる姿を見えてあげる事。
The best thing you can do for your children is to show them how the husband and wife really love each other.
特に日本だと、子育てがナンバーワンになっちゃって、夫婦の関係が優先順位の中ではどんどん落ちちゃって行く感じがするんだよね。
Especially in Japan, it seems as though your children become number one and your spouse becomes a lower priority in your life or something.
もちろん子供も大事だけど、夫や妻よりも子供を愛して大事にするのはちょっと違うと思うんだよね。
Of course your children should be important too, but I think it's not right to make them more important above your spouse.
だって「愛」とか信頼という物はやっぱり家庭の中からまず学んで行く事だと思うし、将来のありとあらゆる人間関係の中でも愛を持って接して行くならば、やっぱり両親がいい見本になってる方が世の中でも上手くやっていけそうだと思わない？
I think that things like Love and Trust should be learned in your family. And in order to have healthy relationships and be able to relate to people on all occasions in order to do well in life, it's very important to have had your parents role modeling love.
難しいだろうけど、愛は意志と努力なんだろうね。
I know it's difficult, but I guess love is a decision and an effort.
毎日の小さな選択が大きな実を結ぶんだろうね。
The small choices you make everyday ends up reaping great fruit.