Young children don't have the skills or knowledge to stay safe in heavy traffic. The following tips（忠告）will be helpful for you to keep your children safe in heavy traffic. Children learn about road safety by watching others. As parents, make sure that you always set good examples. Your children will follow you and think it's OK to do like you. Teach your children to pay attention to traffic lights when you cross the road together with them. This helps them understand when it's safe to cross. Make sure that you walk between your children and the traffic, and hold their hands all the time.

    When your children are a little older, you can start to tell them the importance of traffic knowledge. Let them start to understand the reasons why they need to be socareful. Talk with them about road signs and traffic rules.

     Ask your children to play in a safe place. Never let them ride bikes on the road without an adult present at rush hour.   

    The most important thing you can do is to keep your children from getting hurt, so parents encourage them to follow traffic rules. After knowing about traffic rules, they'll volunteer to obey them. In this way, they'll be careful enough to keep themselves away from danger.

    When I was a teenager growing up in France, I wanted to leave school and have my own life. The only way I could 1 this was to work in the local paper factory in my town, or get married. I was very nervous when I told my 2  I wanted to leave school. I thought he would say, “No! You are going to college.”I was very 3 when he said, “OK. Let's go to the paper factory.”

    Two days later, he took me to the factory. I imagined everyone to be friends,  4   together and having fun. I even imagined there would be music and singing. I  5  I had watched too many movies as a teenager.

    When we arrived at the factory gate, my father spoke to the guard（门卫） and one minute later we were  6. I walked around the factory looking at the building, the workers and listening to the noise. It was 7. I ran back to my father and said, “I want to go home.”

    He asked me, “What do you think of the factory?”

  “Too bad,” I answered.

  “And marriage is even  8!”he said.

     I went back to school the next day thinking about studying hard  9I could get into a good college. I enjoyed studying English so I decided to major in（主修） languages at college.   

     Thanks to my father and our  10 to the paper factory, I now work at the United Nations and my father is very proud of me. I married a very good man and my life is much better than it would have been working in the factory!