A Modern-Day Representation of Our Truth A loving, caring, compassionate and forgiving parent places a cookie on the kitchen counter and tells the four-year-old child named James not to eat the cookie. The parent never had to tell the child that the cookie was even there, but somehow knew that the child would sniff out the cookie. So, specifically demands that the child not eat the cookie. Over time, the four-year old child kept getting drawn back to the kitchen, simply because it is natural for the child to desire to eat that cookie; almost like it was his cookie.