The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh Innocence and Youth Quotes

While Eeyore is burdened with cynicism regarding all the things that could go wrong, Christopher Robin—our resident youth representative—doesn't see "wrong" in those things. Children make the best of any situation, Milne tells us. 

As knowledgeable readers, we take this kind of physical property for granted—that a river will carry something with its flow. But for Pooh, who has never seen this before, this is a veritable Nobel Prize-winning discovery. And what's more, he wants to try the experiment again. In fact, this kind of process is exactly how young children learn about the world around them through play. The famous developmental psychologist Jean Piaget called children "young scientists." This is why.

In the carefree existence of youth, it's pretty easy to forget about responsibilities, too.