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A Humble gesture my Son learned not from me

We always want our child to be a good person and have appropriate mannerism but there are something even we don’t  know and we forget how much it is important.

Few week before me and my husband went to Goa along with my 1.5 year old son,  I was very enthusiastic as I am taking my son 1st time for such holiday and luckily my son was equally cheerful, it was just a 3 days trip, we were staying in a flat in a building where in all other flats foreigners were staying. Foreigner’s from US and UK come to Goa and visit here for 2 to 6 months to relax.

We changed and freshened up, we were going out of the building to have lunch and there after towards the beach and that time a foreigner couple were coming into the building,  I guess they had sun bath as we have a small beach just within 1 km of distance from the building and they were bit wet as well. I was looking at them observing them but at that moment they smiled and said “hi” to my husband and then again “hi” to me, I have been to Goa earlier also and as in Goa you will mostly find many foreigner so I have learned that they always greet us“hi” and “hello” to everyone with a smile and when someone greet to us we also respond to them saying it, but this time when this couple said “hi” and then I said thereafter my son correspondingly said in his small sweet voice “hi” and with a strange expression. I guess he must be thinking we don’t know them then why they said “hi”.

Me and husband were laughing and felt so cute of my son saying “hi” to unknown people without we telling him to do so and then we reached a small restaurant next to our building, there 4 foreigner were sitting and they looked at us and my son as my son was looking cute with 3/4th pants sleeveless t-shirt and he was wearing a cute cap  and this seems more cuter and I know anybody will look at him. So as we entered the restaurant these foreigners smiled at us and looked at my son and one lady among them said “hi” to my son and I told my son to say “hi” to them and he did it and then other three giggled as my son sweetly said "hi" and they also said “hi” to my son and my son acknowledged by saying “hi” to all of them individually without me asking him to do.

And thereafter were ever we went my son said “hi” to everyone who crosses our path with a cutest smile , me and my husband was enjoying the way he was greeting everyone and we loved it

These 3 days passed on very quickly and we had a great time, and then back to Mumbai our daily routine started my office and my mom use to take care of my son  take him to park every day  so that he could see other kids but he never went to others as he gets petrified if any one comes to him.

A weekend arrived we went to a birthday party of 5 year old kid of my colleague, earlier for my son all were alien and whenever anyone come near to him or try to take him he starts crying but that day was different he smiled at every one said “hi” to all of them  and happily he stayed. Next day I had conversation about this to my mom and my mom said after coming from Goa my son in park also he says “hi” to everyone as soon he enters and then he starts playing .

At that moment I realized we always says “hi” to our known people only, not to strangers and we don’t have time to look up to stranger’s and give a smile as well and for my son all are strangers and he practice to do “hi” to anyone when I use to say but our goa trip taught my son to give smile and say “hi” to everyone, this small gesture my son learned not from me but from foreigners and I leaned from him.