Dear Colleen,
In their development, a child is often socially conditioned to smile at
people they know and to inhibit their smile with strangers. If, after they
have been conditioned in the right behaviour, they persist in smiling at
strangers, then a parent might become concerned. Young children, for
example, will often smile at me in supermarkets. When their parents see who
their child is smiling at, the parents will usually become anxious.
Obviously, I am required, as the eliciting adult, to inhibit my response to
the child. As an ugly old bearded man, I should apologise and resume my
normal resting sad face. My wife experiences this differently.
keith
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