Nowadays, a grandmother often welcomes the appearance in a baby grandchild’s room of Winnie the Pooh nursery bedding. Such bedding did not exist when our present day grandmothers were mothers. They used nursery bedding with other colorful characters.
Still, that does not mean that the grandmothers of today lack a familiarity with Winnie the Pooh. In fact, they may well have listened to many Winnie the Pooh tales. Yet, when they were mothers, they could not cheer up a crying baby by using a stuffed Pooh bear. Such bears, along with Pooh bedding came into existence only within the last ten to fifteen years.
Nowadays Pooh bedding can allow Pooh and each of his friends to become part of an infant’s small world. When a grandmother is familiar with Winnie the Pooh tales, then she can use her knowledge of those tales to work on expanding the size of her grandchild’s world.
Hence, when a grandmother finds some Pooh bedding in the crib of a grandson or granddaughter, that grandmother embraces the chance to “connect” with her new grandchild. She might well point to some of the characters on the bedding and call them by name. She might mention some of the traits or habits associated with characters such as Trigger and Piglet.
Later, well after a toddler has outgrown his or her Winnie the Pooh nursery bedding, a grandmother might again make use of her grandchild’s familiarity with Winnie the Pooh. She might build on the child’s familiarity with Pooh, by reading Pooh stories to her grandchild.
Even if that grandchild has grown into a toddler, a grandmother might still make mention of the former nursery bedding. She might indicate that the process of growing up involves more than abandonment of Winnie the Pooh nursery bedding. It also involves learning new skills, such as how to read and write.
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