Division the nine year old way

Well, today, I was trying to work with my nine year old son on some multiplication and division and he was insisting that he was just bad at Math. Of course, I could not accept that, so I tried to give him some example drawn from one of his
experiences.
"What if you and J (13 year old brother) had 8 cookies, and you had to split them, how many
would you get?"
"I wouldn't get any because J would eat them before I got up."
"No, not like that. How many would you have to get so that you wouldn't be
mad at J?"

With almost no thought at all, he replied, "Eight!"

I should have seen that coming!