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Post by JuPMod on Apr 21, 2007 7:23:20 GMT -5
Dressing your twin kids in matching outfits in a way that discourage individuality? Baaad parenting. Yeah, if this was the case with Jim and Tim, yet it is not. True, they did wore matching outfits when they were younger, with the exception of the different colors in their attires. However, their outfits were different in Season 4, thus I think this is the first sign they are slowly beginning to follow different paths as they grow older. They're only 12 years old in S4, so it's still early for them to see whether each will follow their own paths. IMO, I say each will follow their own paths. It makes sense, especially if they start dating girls. I can't see either one joining the other as one goes on a date. That'll be awewierd. ;D
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Post by ninjanaco on Apr 21, 2007 15:33:22 GMT -5
Who would the tweebs crush on? What about Zita? OK, so maybe I'm sort of biased in this reard , but I could see one of the tweebs, say, needing a tutor for Spanish and SeƱorita Flores being that, and said tweeb suddenly like being tutored... I also can see them having to wait for Kim to finish cheer practice, and having nothing else to do, decide to watch said training. All those attractive, flesh-exposing girls gyrating has a certain effect on the tweebs' hormones, and one tweeb says to the other: "I want cooties."
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Post by metaljudas on Apr 21, 2007 18:02:08 GMT -5
True, they did wore matching outfits when they were younger, with the exception of the different colors in their attires. Oh, They certainly get a chance to pick their own clothes as they age. However, Dressing your twin kids in similar clothes during their early formative years? Not something a good parent should do. It may look "cute", but you are basically encouraging the kids to stay as copies of each other and develop a group personality rather than an individual one. It is an easily escapable loop... But why risk it? You don't want your kids to become the "Wonder Twins". Seriously, It bothers me that the tweebs have the names "Tim" and "Jim". Parents should encourage individuality, even when dealing with identical kids.
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Post by Rognik on Apr 21, 2007 18:57:28 GMT -5
Well, I think Tim and Jim have rhyming names only because they both rhyme with Kim. If there wasn't an "impossible" pun in all the family members, I'm sure their names wouldn't rhyme. Besides, they seem to think pretty similarly. I'm not sure if they have friends outside of each other.
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Post by metaljudas on Apr 22, 2007 0:05:32 GMT -5
Well, I think Tim and Jim have rhyming names only because they both rhyme with Kim. If there wasn't an "impossible" pun in all the family members, I'm sure their names wouldn't rhyme. Besides, they seem to think pretty similarly. I'm not sure if they have friends outside of each other. Of course the names are puns, but it doesn't stop it from being an awkward parenting decision. By the way, I imagine the guy in charge of writing the birth certificates in Middleton suffers from manic depression after reading so many puns. "Thinking very similarly and not having any friends outside of each other" Yeah, that's bad. They lack a remarkable non-grupal personality and suffer from some introversion. One could argue that Wade is the only guy close to their age that we see they have some friendship with, but even that relationship is more professional than personal.
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Post by Netherwood on Apr 22, 2007 2:43:16 GMT -5
About the names... when they do get tired of having names that are one letter apart, they can switch over to James and Timothy, nothing alike. That's one small point on the individuality front.
Something to consider: the twins might already be giving input on their wardrobes. They are rather outspoken after all, and if they dislike dressing alike, you can be sure that Mr. and Mrs. Dr. P will hear about it in spades. Possibly punctuated by explosions from the garage after an antimatter experiment "accidentally" fouls up.
Enough of that angle. Now, the Tweebs are freakishly close. They communicate without regular language easily, they act together, they don't just finish each other's sentences but start together and know where the sentence is going from the very beginning. We know this already.
Now, sooner or later hormones will kick in; the big issue, I think, is whether Jim and Tim will be willing to split up long enough to pursue permanent relationships minus their twin. They already have this incredibly tight bond with each other; lust may hold their attention for awhile, but unless they have very sudden and very powerful urges toward individuality very soon (perhaps falling for the same girl, as has been mentioned?), any relationship with a girl with have to be as interesting and as comfortable as their relationship with each other to last. Otherwise, why bother branching out?
I think there are a few qualifications a girl would need in order to hold her ground in this situation; I think the biggest two would be intelligence and empathy. For the intelligence, each twin is a genius who is completely accustomed to being perfectly understood by his twin. If a Tweeb is dating someone who can't keep up, he'll be tempted to default back to the other Tweeb. On the empathy, this goes back to how freaky tight these two are. A Tweeb and a potential female foil would have to learn how to understand each other's thoughts, emotions, and intentions. Maybe the female is herself a twin on the level of the Tweebs; maybe she's just very perceptive and sensitive. Wherever she gets it, she and he will have to be able to understand one another. Otherwise, once again--why branch out when running around with your twin is so much more comfortable?
Or, of course, the Tweebs could fall for girls who completely break this mold or any other that looks sensible but be so determined that the Tweebs learn to communicate like normal people and put up with non-genius level peeps over the course of several chapters of stormy fanfics that sound like a bad teen romance novel. Whatever works.
~Netherwood
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