Messed Up Things In Winnie The Pooh Everyone Ignores

Let's run with the idea that everything Pooh and company does is make-believe. If that's the case, then something is wrong with Christopher Robin's intellectual development, and nobody's talking about it.

Let's run with the idea that everything Pooh and company does is make-believe. If that's the case, then something is wrong with Christopher Robin's intellectual development, and nobody's talking about it.

In the original books, Christopher was essentially a toddler, only going to boarding school at the end of the second book. This isn't really the case, however with Disney's version, who looks like he's about 8 or 9 years old. So he's probably in third or fourth grade and has had some education. Why, then, does he make so many basic spelling and logical errors he should have grown out of by now?

If the Hundred Acre Wood residents are all imaginary, then everything they do comes from Christopher Robin's head. Every time a character misspells something basic, like "honey" as "hunny" or "school" as "skull," that isn't just Pooh having very little brain. In all likelihood, that's how Christopher Robin thinks it's spelled. That's to say nothing of logical leaps that few kids his age should stumble into, like not recognizing Tigger without his stripes. It might have looked better if Disney made him 4 years old because then his academic confusion would at least make sense.

Then again, this is the same kid who, no matter what age, wisely told Pooh, "You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." So maybe he's street-smart rather than book-smart.

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