Too Many Cookies

Did your mother ever equate learning to your brain being a cookie jar, with each new bit of information we learned like a cookie being stored in that jar? My wife, Cheryl, used that analogy to her son as a positive incentive to learning, and it worked until the study cramming session when Aaron declared, “Mom, my cookie jar is full! I can’t learn anything else new unless I throw out some old cookies that are in there now.” Sometimes the wisdom of children trumps even the wisdom of mothers — but as mothers always do, Cheryl had captured the essence of truth with the cookie jar analogy.