You are right, it is only hair… but twin mums should know that twins often don’t like to attract attention wherever they are, that they wish to be just like anybody else, simply individuals. Labelling just for a short time is ok – it happens also with single children at the beginning of the schoolyear: some teachers do this just to get to know the names – but this is a whole other thing, in my opinion. It is more difficult to tell twins apart, and I can only recommend to focus, since the beginning, on physical differences, differences in their way of laughing, talking, and to remember their names. These quadruplets do have names too. How will people learn to call them by their names if they only see the numbers? And did you think about how the children feel walking down the street with this obvious sign on their head? It makes them -again!- feeling different.

Thanks, Expat Alien. I hope too that it will be only temporary…

Oh well, we all react differently to this. However, this is hair. The parents might decide it wasn’t such a good idea and let their children hair grow normally. And yes, while I have no experience with having twins on my own, I usually try to see the differences- although this takes a while for me to happen.