One of my favorite things about having two little boys so close in age is the seemingly instant friendship that comes through brotherhood. Hudson and Hayes are at the age where they play so well together, and they often refer to their brother as their best friend. This thrills me.
Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with the boys and introduce them to The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. They were already big fans of Winnie the Pooh. We have tons of Pooh and Friends figurines all over the house, and ‘Pooh Bear’ was among Hayes’ first phrases.
I can remember watching the VHS of the Winnie the Pooh movie as a child. I loved the fantasy world of the Hundred Acre Woods and the friendship that Christopher Robin shares with Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga, Roo, Owl, Rabbit, and all the other friends in the woods.
I first watched the movie when we lived on a street full of other young families in Baton Rouge. It was our first house, and we would move around a lot after that. But I can remember living on that street and making friends with the other girls that lived across the street or next door. It was a different time. We could go in and out of each other’s houses and wave hello to the mothers as we dashed back to our friends’ bedroom to play with dolls. Or we’d just go outside and ride bikes until dark.
Moving away to a new town was hard, even to a seven-year-old. But I instantly made friends with my next door neighbor. We were school classmates, next door neighbors, and we developed a friendship when she invited me over to jump on her new trampoline in their backyard. The simplicity of Winnie the Pooh brings back so many sweet memories. The characters are there for one another. They share with each other and look out for each other. Pooh and Piglet would do anything for each other, and the sweet stories in this movie are exactly what I want my boys to see as a sweet model of friendship.
I’m thankful for the friends I made through my lifetime as my family moved around, but I’m also so excited that my boys will always have each other. That constant best friend, who lives in the room next door. And in my case, we may have moved and friends may have changed, but just like Pooh and Christopher Robin and all the other friends of the Hundred Acre Woods, the memories of those friendships last a lifetime. They sustain distance and time and changes. The sound of my boys’ laughter as Pooh gets stuck because he ate too much honey is a beautiful reminder that the magic of the Hundred Acre Wood is timeless, and the adventures will live on forever.
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This is fantastic! I have a 7 month old little girl, and I was just thinking the other day about how I can’t wait to introduce her to Winnie the Pooh!
Sounds like a perfect Christmas gift for lots of littles!!
Pooh is my all time favorite!!!
I have two boys as well, ages 4 and 15 months. I love to see the relationship developing between them, especially as my little one grows older. I am so happy that they will always have each other to depend on!
I love pooh! And I love introducing my two year old son to the things I loved as a child!
Right now our son is our only child. I got involved in a mom group through meetup the moment we moved to Arizona (he was just 11 days old when we came here!) and since then, we both have developed such good friends. It is so important for Maddox to be able to play and interact with other kids his age, and to understand the concept of sharing and taking turns. Also, Eeyore was Maddox’s first stuffed animal. He had a little rattle inside so there was the tiniest tinkling of bells. Maddox LOVED that EEYORE so much. It was the only thing that he would want for the longest time. I am excited to introduce the rest of the Pooh family to him <3
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Showing our children the importance of friendship is high on my list of behaviors to model. I should let them watch Pooh!
Pooh is one of our favorites. I can so relate to your thoughts on your boys being “best friends” already. I love it. We still have this on VHS and we often play “Pooh Sticks” in the creek behind my mama’s house!
This was my one of my favorites on VHS as a child too! There’s something so magical and adventurous about the Hundred Acre Wood. My favorite adventures as a child were playing in our treehouse and pretending to be the Swiss Family Robinson!
I love Winnie the Pooh! I found a collection of the stories all put together in one book with the intent of giving it as a gift, but have kept it just because I enjoy reading them occasionally myself!
Friendship, imagination and adventure are important for my children because they get to develop social skills and enjoy the fun of being a kid.
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It’s important for kids to have friends and have fun to be sociable and happy
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Every kid needs a buddy. Someone to learn and play with. When I think back on my own childhood most of my memories involve my best girl friends. I know my son will have similar memories as he grows with his friends.
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It is important to learn necessary skills for a happy and rewarding life.
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friendship, imagination and adventure are important because you need to escape and explore in your mind it helps you grow and be creative and it makes life that more interesting and everything is better with a friend
friendship imgination and adventure are so important in a childs life they bring happiness
It’s important for kids because it helps to develop their social skills.
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It important because my children learn so much by playing together and with other kids, as well as by using their imaginations. This prepares them to be productive and happy adults.
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They are all character building traits and therefore very important.
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Friendship is important to have support in life and people to share the happy moments with and building relationships is important for careers. As for imagination? What would a grand adventure be without one? All are very important tools for a child to grow and prosper! 🙂
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There is nothing more important than friendships and bonds while growing up and as an adult
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I believe it prepares them for the real world.
I feel that the importance of friendship, imagination and adventure in my kids lifes help them to develope socially and emotionally.
Thanks so much.
These things are all important in my children’s live, because it gives them confidence, fun and helps them develop and learn about the world.
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Through friendship, children learn tolerance, compassion, and social interaction. Playing together inspires imagination, and that increases thinking power. So yes, it’s all very important to a child’s development.
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Adventure brings new experiences and learning to children.
Letting my kids go on adventures — even if they’re just imaginary or through books — develops their sense of wonder and creativity.
Kids need to experience all this to grow and become who they will be. It also helps with social skills, independence, and confidence.
these things are important,help them to learn about themselves and what them want in their life
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Adventure is about learning about yourself and how you like to play
Friendship, imagination and adventure are impoart for my kids because they make life richer and happier.
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Imagination helps children become creative thinkers
i tweeted : https://twitter.com/bellows22/status/364952745054187520
My daughter thrives from friendships. She learns the most by mimicking others actions. I love watching her gain skills by being creative and using her imagination.
Adventure is about learning about yourself and how you like to play
These three things are what help children to grown into emotional healthy adults – thank you.
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Friendships are the bonds that keep my daughter happy, healthy, enables her to use imagination, and often a source for many adventures.
healthy friendships allow children to grow and experience relationships with peers. It provides a safe ground to have adventure and imagination, teaches them social skills, and enables them to make mistakes and hopefully learn from them.
All children need to learn early the importance of friendship, imagination and adventure. If they learne these traits well, they will grow into happy adults.
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encouraging imagination builds problem solving skills for the future
we encourage their imagination through stories
All three things are necessary for children to grow into healthy adults 🙂
Friendship is important for a child to grow up and become a good person
he is only 8 months; so far friendship means someone new to chew on! scg00387 at yahoo dot com
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friendships are important for children bc it develops relationships outside the family for a child.
because the combination of the 3 of them help to form his personality. He is drawn to kids who play and imagine like himself which helps him develop strong relationships
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Friendship, imagination and adventure in your child’s life is important because it molds them to become who they are and teaches them love and acceptance.
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It is important as they learn through it.
My four year is recently learning the value of friendship and its wonderful to see his development, he has a huge imagination and we try to enhance it at every opportunity. My two year old is the one with all the sense of adventure!
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Friendship, imagination and adventure are so important in a child’s life because they will use all of these things throughout their entire life!
The ability to use imagination to create an adventure with their friends molds a child into a confident and well social balanced individual.
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my kids use their imaginations to come up with adventures to enjoy with their friends
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We are only on this earth for a short time. It is important to teach your children to have a good heart. Love makes the world go around. Love for people, places, and things. our lives are a series of events, and those events would be nothing without friendship, imagination, and adventure!
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I think imagination is incredibly important and do whatever I can to encourage imagination through playtime.
I imagine that friendship can be quite an adventure for a child.
I think a good imagination is a good thing for a child to have.
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Imagination is so important to encourage it helps a child grow and be creative. I really think it helps them believe they can do anything. My kids and I have tea partys, and such are favorite is pretending to be a vet.
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Friendship, Imagination and Adventure will help a child grow and want more from life.
Friendship is the lodestone in our lives. Creativity and a sense of adventure can spark a child to perform better in school, become more confidant, problem solve – and lead to an amazing adulthood.
My daughter made a career based on imagination, creativity and a sense of adventure. She did this with 2 long time friends 🙂
I remember watching Winnie the pooh when I wan a kid 🙂 Loved it. Unlike myself I hope my children have lots of friends. I think its important for them to experience and learn the values of friendship. Helps them develop emotionally and socially. They learn how to set up rules, how to weigh alternatives and make decisions when faced with dilemmas. They experience fear, anger, aggression and rejection. They learn how to win, how to lose, what’s appropriate, what’s not. And of course they will also enjoy the gift of friendship. Having someone understanding and a support system. Make them laugh and have fun.
It allows them to discover who they are, which is important for when they get older. sweepmorey at gmail dot com
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I love when kids have adventures is takes them to places they may never see with out a imagination
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MY kid loves pooh
I love that my daughter has stayed friends with her buddies from daycare throughout the year, even when they went on to different schools. They’ve maintained a wonderful bond.
Our middle daughter personifies friendship, imagination and adventure. She sees the good in almost everyone and is an artist.
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It will help enrich his life and make him a better person.
I think they all build character and help the kids live healthy active social lives.
friendship builds social skills but also gives them someone to rely on besides family. together, they can expand their imaginations and also have some great adventures.
Imagination is important for creativity and growing through adventures, which plays into their imagination. Friendships and building relationships is a necessary skill for all ages.
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Friendship, adventure, and imagination are all important aspects in a children’s life. They grow emotionally and mentally and it let’s them be who they are and discover themselves. It gives them skills they will need in their adult lives. I love sitting and just watching my kids use their imaginations!
Friendship lets children have relationships with other people besides the family. Someone to talk with and enjoy things that are of interest that the family member does not share.
It helps them be good people as they mature.
by reading out loud and spending time creating from nothing I can help my children open their mind
Friendship is very improtant in any childs life, i try to get my son to build as many friendships early in life as possible to help teach him how to share and give him a sense of loyalty. Adventure and imagination are also soo so important to my young son, these charactoristics play big roles in anything a child does and wants to grow up to be, imagination allows him to pretend to be anything he wants and adventure lets him think of things he can do that help him imagine what he wants to be.
It builds character, creates a world of fun, and leads to a happy childhood.
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fostering friendship, imagination and adventure in a child will create an adult who is caring, giving, open-minded, and non-judgmental.
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It is so important for kids to have an imagination. As my kids grow I see how their imagination grows too! I encourage their creativity and socializing with similar friends!
Friendship, imagination and adventure are important because they help children develop into happy, responsible adults! (:
I want my daughter to find happiness and with that she will need to make many friends. Her imagination is important so she can dream big.
Friendship, imagination and adventure are important for my children because they get to develop social skills
The importance of friendship, imagination and adventure in my child’s life is they’re the foundation of a happy childhood.
I find that E. behaves and listens better after he’s had some socialization with kids his age. He’s an only child so that isn’t as frequent as for other kiddos, so we try to get as much peer interaction as possible for the little guy.
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Imagination and adventure can take the boring days and make them something memorable.
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While I do not have a child of my own, I feel that these life qualities are very important for any child and any adult for that matter. Without these three things, we would all be socially stunted!
I tweeted here: https://twitter.com/MsTofuFairy/status/374884675950358530
Friendship, imagination, and adventure are important staples of any child’s life.
I truly believe that friendship, imagination and adventure are of the utmost importance in our child’s life. They help with growth and maturity and help keep life fun and exciting.
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Imagination allows a child to have exciting adventures and share them with good friends.
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Friendship, imagination and adventure in my sons’ lives means they are not only building upon their social and creative skills but more importantly they are enjoying their childhood years (which go by way to quickly) Nothing makes me smile like watching my boys and their friends dream up backyard adventures
Friendship, imagination and adventure are important for my children to be well rounded.
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The little one already has quite the vivid imagination!
Friendship, imagination and adventure are all important for kids (and adults, too) We take a daily hike around the lake and see what adventures we can have.
Thanks for the contest.
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Friendship, imagination and adventure sounds like what every child needs and deserves. It also sounds like the pattern that most of our beloved bedtime books follow.
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Friendship, imagination and adventure are the three best things when you’re a child. Friendship for when you’re feeling lonely. Imagination for when you’re feeling bored. Adventure for when you’re feeling a little..well, adventurous! 😉
-Ashley Marie Morrissey
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Its very important that my kids have fun with there imagination and go on fun adventures with there good friends.
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imagination is very important to them for giving them hope in a fun future full of possibilities
Friendship, imagination, and adventure is important in my child’s life because I don’t want her to be scared to do anything.
It helps them become creative and kind adults.
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