[merylsilverburg]

It seems like the popular opinion (not accusing anyone here, btw) is that the "Winnie the Pooh" series is "funny" or "happy." It kinda bothers me because I never felt that the series or any of the characters were happy, cheerful, funny, or even cute. I mean, yes, their physical aspect can be described as cute but their personalities, situations, and so on never came across to me as "Hahaha, that's sooo adorable!" or "Heeheehee, that's hilarious!" All the characters have flaws and little oddities to their personality; which may or may not be part of their charm as overall characters. But for me, I felt they were kinda annoying (no offense to fans!) because Pooh always wants honey and thinks of nothing but it and inconveniences people to get his hands on it. And even though he seems to care about Piglet, I feel like he doesn't treasure him as much as he claims. There's other things too. Also, I always felt the series had a sort of depressing air about it.

I hope I made sense and didn't offend anyone.

Originally Posted by Meiko

Why do you think parents are often so little interested in their children's attachment to their most treasured toys?

Good question. I think it may have something to do with adulthood and the worries of adulthood; family, jobs, money, bills, etc. With all of these in mind, the attachment to "silly" material stuff like toys is just either nonsense or immature. They've been away from such a thing so long they've forgotten what it feels like because the material goods they care about pertains to what ranks as important as an adult, like money and so on. At least that's what I think...

...of course, this is not saying that all parents should allow their kids to store everything until it accumulates so much it takes up a part of the home.