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To think I'm not being U to paint baby's toenail?

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Tape7210 · 26/08/2016 21:25

Yes, toenail! I have twin identical DDs. I am struggling. It's okay if they're dressed, as I do different colours, but when they are in just a nappy, etc. It's too hard! It isn't so bad, is it?

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CafeCremeEtCroissant · 27/08/2016 07:25

I'd stress out majorly about mixing them up. I'd have had something done before the name tags came off.

Given how much fussing went on, on a thread a couple of weeks ago, about the toxicity of nail polish, I don't think I'd do that. But given it's a tiny amount, if you're happy with it, then don't stress.

Babies are so good ar removing things, and I'm so paranoid about them choking, I'm not sure I'd relax if I used ribbon/jewellery etc.

Tattoo - I think a single dot on T1 and a double dot on T2 would be fine, just like one of the many many needle tests/jabs babies have. I'm just not sure. Coukd bring myself to permanently mark their perfect , beautiful, baby skin - no matter how inobtrusive

Thank god I didn't have identical twins (I don't have non identical ones either), I think this issue alone would have been the end of me 😅

I think, probably, nail polish is the best answer, but I'd go for all toes in a pale colour. ALL to reduce the possibility of it coming off & pale woukd be enough because as long as somethings there you can tell, you don't need to be able to see it from far off.

CafeCremeEtCroissant · 27/08/2016 07:27

midnight. I'd have just bought them cute name badges as it was annoying them too, just make sure they handed them back before Mummy Weirdest turned up. Stupid cow.

If it hadn't have bothered them I'd have probably got name badges for the entire class! Mind you, with my brain, I may have needed to anyway 😂😂

MidniteScribbler · 27/08/2016 08:14

I'd have just bought them cute name badges as it was annoying them too, just make sure they handed them back before Mummy Weirdest turned up.

I set up a classroom "newspaper office" when we we working on journalism as a writing focus and gave everyone desk signs with their names and job titles on them. They had to put their desk sign on their desk in front of where they were working and we had payday and promotions and the whole thing. When the unit was over, the kids loved the signs so much they kept using them and I did nothing to discourage them. Mummy tried to complain, but couldn't do anything as it was part of a unit of work.

I think Mum had a few issues, as even Dad would change their hair or give one of them a different shirt when he took them out alone (so the girls would tell me). It was almost like she used it as 'you don't love them enough if you can't tell them apart' because she would often tell their teachers that they must not be giving them enough individual attention if you couldn't tell them apart.

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