“Children learn to smile from their parents.” Shinichi Suzuki

After we calmly enter the classroom, sit quietly and roll the ball to one another in Suzuki Early Childhood Education (SECE) classes, we stand and greet one another while singing, shaking hands and smiling.  I enjoyed reading this article chiefly because of this statement: "I really think that babies are learning what joy is by sharing it with someone else." In other words, smiling might not be so much an expression of a preexisting state as a path we take to get to that state."