Mallory and the Trouble with Twins! Part 1!

[road_baby]

I'm still waiting for my tablet cable to come in and I wanted to do something to occupy my time, so I snark. It's funny, but I remember liking this book because it had the awesome shopping/piercing spree in it, but reading it now there's points I hate. And really that's all Ann's fault. She's seriously such bad writer! She has more contradictions

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[andromeda331]

I don't see why they allowed their other kids to do whatever they wanted, but Mal was held to these high standards.

Neither do I, Claire can running around naked and no one cares but pink shoes or glitter sweater is out of line.

I can see maybe getting them identical dresses, but why not in different colours or something? What if one of them really hates pink or something? And even their toys are identical?

So can I dressing them alike sometimes or all of the time if the girls like it. Its weird that everything is identical their clothes, jewelry, and toys?
Unless their the kind of sisters who scream bloody murder when one gets something they don't what its unlikely they like all of the same toys and colors. Why waste money on things they don't like? Its hard to believe Linda doesn't know how unhappy her kids are or doesn't know what they like or don't like. If she was a normal parent she'd know that and let them dress how they like (with in reason) but still insist on dressing a like for Christmas or at least for the Christmas picture. As someone who had to wear matching clothes to her brother year after year for those pictures, there really is no getting out of that whether your identical or not.

[shatisarockgod]

Again, I don't have kids and I'll state it again right off the bat. I'm just pretending like Marilyn and Carolyn are my daughters. The ball would've been in their court a long time ago. Take the girls back to school shopping or something like that. You two know what you want and let's see what's picked out. If one girl picked out all shirts, shorts and pants and the other picked out skirts and dresses, we'll go with it. If they were the ones that came with me with all identical stuff, we'll go with it*. And they're 8 year old kids so I doubt they'd be picking up stuff that looked like it'd belong on a stripper.

*I don't have any siblings but there's no way in hell I'd want to dress like somebody on purpose every single day for multiple years of my life.

Same goes for haircuts. The hair is on your head and you're going to be the one that deals with it if you hate it. I sure as hell wouldn't force either way. I have very long hair and for the majority of my life I've had longer hair. It would bug me big time if I had to get forced short haircuts if I wanted long hair. And yeah, the same applies if I wanted a really short haircut and I was forced to have this long ass hair that I didn't like.

I said this in a recent reply about the Arnold parents, what do they do at home? Do they interact or get to know their children at all? Or is it a case of "Just got home from work/the store/any other place I had to go, go to my room and only leave my room to eat, go to the bathroom and leave the house again."

And the friends don't get off the hook either for not knowing more about the personalities of their friends. Went 8 years of our lives with NOBODY knowing who we really are. It's just shitty.

[andromeda331]

I said this in a recent reply about the Arnold parents, what do they do at home?

What do the Arnolds do? There's no way neither girl hasn't voiced how unhappy she is. How do you ignore that? There's a difference between being a brat and being an unhappy kid. How can they seriously believe both girls want the exact same thing all of the time? That's not even possible.

And the friends don't get off the hook either for not knowing more about the personalities of their friends. Went 8 years of our lives with NOBODY knowing who we really are.

This part I find hard to believe me I've been around twins a lot. My kindergarten class had two sets of identical twin girls and they were never mixed up. It was easy to tell who was who because we played together all year long. I went to middle school and high school with identical twins boys both of them were on the same sports teams but it would be hard to mess them up, they had different personalities as everyone does. One of my best friend's husband is an identical twin and it would be hard to mess them up. Her husband is more outgoing, talkative, and social, his twin isn't he's very shy and quiet. It takes him awhile to get comfortable around new people. One of my mom's friends has quads two boys and two girls I'll admit as babies they were hard to tell apart and they usually had a shirt or outfit with their name on it. But as they grew older again their personalities really came out. How can Carolyn and Marilyn's friends not know them?