The term ‘BFF’ or Best Friend Forever, is one most associate with a feeling of positivity.
It is a representation of someone important in your life. Someone who has provided friendship, reliability, permanence, unwavering support and trust often for a considerable amount of time and with the knowledge. It often comes with the belief that they will continue to do this forever.
Like Pacey and Dawson, Pooh and Piglet, Cher and Dionne, Rory and Lorelai, Romy and Michelle, Thelma and Louise, Buzz and Woody and possibly the most famous, Chandler and Joey (or is this just me?), the idea of the Best Friend Forever is one represented within popular culture directed at audiences of all ages.
Conversations between your best friends translated, because here’s what they really mean:
In my house, my four and six-year-old girls love Disney movies and watching the BFF relationships of many characters such as Lilo and Stitch, Rapunzel and Pascal and Sven and Kristoff. They also like the TV show Alexa & Katie which is based on the BFF relationship of the two title characters.
Although these characters are generally pretty good examples of best friends, demonstrating all the qualities you would look for in one, it is also important to remember (and to tell kids) that they are also characters in a fictional show. And although sometimes prettier than real life, fiction is not always an accurate representation of reality.
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My 11½ yr old daughter had a BFF for much of the last 2 years - oz tag, netball, sleep overs, lovely family. Went pear shaped at the start of term 3 last year when an ordinary tiff became something more with the involvement of another girl which resulted in my daughter being excluded from that friendship group. My daughter made some fantastic new friends with some slightly older girls but it still hurts; she has the same teacher as last year, who has been great and looking out for her. I think her ex-BFF's mother still isn't quite sure what's happened, but we don't feel it's our place to lay it all out for her. The teacher and other people have said that something seems to happen with girls that age, possibly because of impending puberty: I wondered about this in that other Mamamia article about single sex girls' schools.