This friday, at my kids’ school, they are having “twin day”. They go to a school that requires uniforms. The kids can dress out of uniform if they have a “twin”, and their “twin” dresses the same. Now I have twin daughters who will pair up and switch classes and try to fool everyone. Here is my problem with the idea. My son has 2 friends that he has been with for 6 years. One has to be left out? The daughter who is younger than the twins has already been asked to pair up and is waiting to pick her “twin”. So unless you have a best friend who is only “your” best friend you have to wear your normal uniform and be shown to be a no friend loser. Am I being a total oversensitive PC parent? Oh pit thred. What the f…!!!
Well, the last Twin Day I can remember attending had several groups of triplets or whatever. So unless this place has some absurdly literal “Twin Day,” the answer seems kind of obvious.
Wait until they get to the point where they pick lunch tables. And dates for dances.
School is a social battlefield. Tell your children to pair up with the most popular person they can.
Or better have one of them dress up in a robe and sandels and say his friend that is his twin is Jesus who is always with him. If the teacher questions this tell your child to point the single track of footprints since Jesus was carrying him.
Hope this makes sense. I just took a massive overdose of cold medicine.
I just sprained my brain trying to understand all this. Students can dress out of uniform if the can produce one and only one personal clone? You have naturally occuring twins so that part is easy. Got that. Must…stop…before I get sucked into the thought patterns.
I know how awkward that is, but is it really that big a deal? Can’t your son and his friends figure this out, or find another kid?
I could tell.
The boy’s teacher has said only 2 can pair up. Shagnasty, thanks for the laugh. Go Blue. My kids are the popular ones. Really, I’m serious. They are. .
The whole idea that you can have only 1 true (twin)friend is what bothers me. Hell I am just working out my feelings about this “special” day
I do think you might be reading too much into this.
Whoah man, I hated twin day as a kid. That was the day all the kids I hung around with tried to up their social status by becoming associated with anyone but me. It was almost as bad as partner-reading, which was more a daily humiliation thing. At least with twin day you don’t have to sit there almost crying for ten minutes until all hope is lost and you have to go bother the teacher by saying “Uhhh…I don’t have a partner.”
School doesn’t have to be a social battlefield. If our workplaces encouraged us to publically play favorites and shun whatever co-workers we feel are unattractive or unlikable that day, we’d probably quit. Kid’s don’t get hurt any less than adults when they are treated poorly, and in school they are powerless to leave. This sort of thing doesn’t make them stronger, it doesn’t prepare them for the real world (where we at least make a show of acting civilized) and it isn’t excusable.
If I would have thought of that, I’da done it when my school had “twin day.”
What’s sad is I’m not hopped up on cough medicine.
Being the reality tv whore that I am, I have to say this sounds exactly like one of those challenges the producers like to throw in there to make the contestants reveal the pecking order of the society. Sounds gruesome and decidedly un-social, and supports my dedication to homeschool for social reasons.
I suggest that your son and his two friends include a fourth child and that all four of them dress identically. If the fourth child is a girl, better yet. If a teacher objects, the kids should say that they were “thinking outside the box”.
This is the brilliant solution that is obvious only once it’s been suggested. Exactly–find a fourth kid and invite them to join in! Ideally, encourage your son to find someone that he thinks is likely to have to sit the event out and invite them: you said your kids are the popular ones (unless you were being sarcastic), and this would be a good way to break down some of those stupid school social barriers.
If he can’t bring himself to invite an unpopular kid to be a twin, well, sucks to be him.
Daniel
Having a twin, every day in elementary school was “twin” day and I hated it.
I understood you and I support posting while under the influence of cold medication and other brain foggin’ devices At your own risk.
Unless the phrase i]massive overdose of cold medicine* is some kind of lingo for Meth. You sicko. 
That deserves a big hefty :rolleyes:.
My son’s a surviving twin; his sister having died three days after they were born.
He would probably get through ‘twin day’ just fine… but the emotional scar that GrizzWife and I bear would be cut open again.
Yeah yeah…I know…It ain’t about me.
Just a thought, do any of the teachers wear the same clothes every day? If so, one of the tripplets can dress as that teacher for amusing piss-take routines about the teachers habbits. (Note only will work if your son’s friends really are the popular ones at school)
Do they still teach the three R’s in elementary school? Or is it all just some bullshit babysitting service now? How on earth does such a foolish stunt promote education of children?
We didn’t have Twin Days until high school, and it was still semi-tragic for me. Not because I didn’t have a twin, but because I wound up an unintentional and ersatz triplet.
Ever since kindergarten I’d been kinda-sorta friends with a gal, Melanie, who had the same last name as I did. (Consequently, people constantly asked if we were sisters, and finally we started lying and saying “Yes”. Unfortunately, decades later (in my mid-20s) I ran into someone with whom I’d gone to elementary school, and she mentioned having seen Melanie recently. I replied glibly that I hadn’t seen or heard from her since high school, and asked how she was, to which the girl leveled a semi-disgusted look at me and asked incredulously, “Isn’t she your sister?”)
So on the day before Twin Day, I suggested to Melanie that we should be “Twins” the next day. She replied that she’d be wearing black jeans and a red sweatshirt (hey, it was the mid-80s). Wow, she really plans ahead, I thought . . . in retrospect, of course, I can’t believe I didn’t catch on sooner.
Twin Day comes, and there I am in my red henley (it was as close as I could get) and semi-faded black Gloria Vanderbilt jeans with black ankle boots. And in walk Melanie and her best friend Debbie, in brand new identical black Levi’s, identical red sweatshirts, huge matching red bows in their hair, and matching black Chuck Taylor hi-tops. (see previous parenthetical comment about the 80s).
So there I was, looking all Single White Female (only Black, and . . . well, a few years before anyone would actually coin that reference) and desperate to be in the club.
It still hurts. :o
As for the OP, I’m curious - what would happen if your son and his two friends dressed as triplets? I mean, what are they gonna do, send a note home? (Surely they wouldn’t send the kid home . . . right?) I suppose that could get the other two kids in hot water, but since your son would have your permission to flout the rules . . .
As an alternative, I vote for including a fourth child.