Pratibha Joshi with her son Vansh at Aksa Beach in Malad. Pic/Shadab Khan

Even as revellers frequent Mumbai’s beaches for a cool dip, a mother spends her time daily at Malad’s Aksa beach, digging a two-feet-deep pit for her toddler. One would assume that the mother is indulging her kid with some good-old sand-digging game. But, Pratibha Joshi, who makes her two-year-old sit in the pit for hours together, says she is only trying to get her child to walk.