Children
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Children have particular and special ways to communicate with their parents and call their attention. Sometimes when kids want something they pretend they don't as a way to send a message and maintaining their parents interest. Children are self-centered and capricious, and look for ways to make sure that they get what they want. On the other hand the nature of a parent is always to look for ways to satisfy their kids' desires.
When children say "no" to certain things knowing that they want it, they are just manipulating their parents and obtain whatever they want, principally something material. But there are certain instances, that what children are looking for is just the love of that someone else.
In the case of "Checkouts" for example, Cynthia describes a boy and a girl who feel strongly attracted to each other, but they did not want to be noticed by other people, so they pretended they did not see each other every time the girl visited the supermarket for grocery shopping. In this case both the girl and the bag boy negated the opportunity to a closer relationship and communicating with each other through body language avoiding a direct dialogue, like a child would do it with his/her parents.
In my own experience I can relate to these types of situations. When I was younger and visited toy stores and saw a toy that I liked and wanted, I didn't ask directly my mother if I could buy it; instead I started describing to her the toy I would like to have, the next moment my mother would ask me to show her such toy...