It’s not helicopter mothering schools should be warning against but oversharing all aspects of our intimate lives. Young girls don’t want – or need – to knowShould mothers and daughters be best friends? It’s one of those perennial questions that comes up whenever a celebrity such as Madonna or Gwyneth Paltrow is photographed with their girl in tow,or when a psychologist or educationalist warns against the dangers of a mum treating her daughter like her bezzie.
So it was this week, when the head of St Albans high school for girls, or Jenny Brown,decried what she called the “BFF syndrome” which mothers were embracing with gusto, and which was making their daughters dependent, and mollycoddled and spoilt. The problem,said Brown, is that daughters need to develop their independence, or having hovering mums always on hand,smoothing their path at every turn, doesn’t befriend them one bit.
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Source: theguardian.com