Empathy

Faith has finally learned what empathy is. I love her so much for it. The other day I dumped the vaccuum cleaner dirt on the floor by accident. I then followed it by placing Bud's eggs onto his plate because he said they were going to burn. However it was at the same exact time he was emptying the dirt holder into the trash can and the dust poured into the air. Bud yelled at me, I was trying to help so I left to go to the room to cry. I was only trying to help. Faith followed me in there and layed on the floor beside me with her Lamby. "Mommy, do you want my Lamby to feel better?" No thank you Faith you can keep it. Thanks though. So as I was telling her that I just wanted to help, she came up to the bed where I was sitting, put her arm around me and proceeded to tell me that it would be okay. We would get through this problem. She kissed me on the head and hugged me again followed by laying back down on the ground. Does a child learn this from her parents? How can one day it just appear? I mean she has always had a caring heart but this was different. She really wanted to be there for me. If I could have hugged and kissed myself and told myself it was going to be okay, it would have sounded just like Faith that day.