Twins: Dress and Decor

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A pair of twins is an absolute blessing, both for a family in general and for the children themselves; having a very close friend and companion from the get go can be great for children’s social skills and self esteem. When presented with a bouncing pair, though, how best should mothers treat their new babies? Is it best to treat twins similar? Or should twins’ be individually dressed? 


Bedroom Décor

Having twins might be quite the surprise for parents who weren’t anticipating such a bumper bundle of joy, but it’s easy to budget for a pair rather than a single baby! Sites such as Bedstar offer hundreds of items on discount that fit any taste or size of room, on any budget.

Picking a colour scheme is a far more arduous task than getting inexpensive furniture, though. Forget the soft repeated pinks and blues, duck egg greens and pastel colours are soothing for newborns, still allowing parents to retain a degree of style and sophistication to run through the entire home.

Assigning each child a ‘signature colour’ can also make decorating a painless task. With three to five colours in a palate, each child having their own, personal colour can make creating a matching colour scheme an easy task. With many shades of the same colour, accessories can also be matched in terms of tone and colour, making for a beautiful twin’s room that can be used into early teenhood.

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Dress

Twinship is often, in the eyes of the populace at large, based upon the idea of physical and mental similarity. Thus, it can be rather easy for parents to go along with the consensus, fostering resemblance and coordination, especially through the clothes twins wear.

This could have negative consequences, however. The early years of a child’s life, when parents are most likely to dress their kids in similar or identical outfits, are some of the most formative of a child’s life. At this point, when cognitive skills are being developed, ideas surrounding self identity might be obscured by similarities in dress and the social ramifications that can come from such a choice.

However, anyone asking older pairs of twins what they think will find that only mild annoyance over is usually elicited regarding their parents’ decision to dress them alike. Given this, it is unlikely that any true damage could be done to a set of twins, though forcing older infants to dress alike, against their will, is a definite no-no! If similarity is definitely your purview, try matching patterns whilst using different colours, or vice-versa, in order for twins to retain self identity whilst still looking undeniably cute!