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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My sister is in Europe for work, and I’m taking care of her boys. They are good kids, but I found it weird that they showered together, and even shampooed each other! Are multiples supposed to be this close?[/quote]

By middle school age, kids usually would be starting to want more privacy than this. I agree with you that it seems not quite age-appropriate since by MS age most kids tend to get leery of being naked around others (yes, even in sports locker rooms, in some kids' cases--each kid is different). Maybe they just aren't there yet in terms of maturing into wanting privacy. And if they've always done this they likely think it's what everyone does.

But it's not your role as aunt/kid-sitter to tell the boys this or to judge your sister for allowing it.

If they're still doing it in high school...Yeah, that's a lot of togetherness. Not necessarily icky but lacking in a sense of privacy that would seem natural in the teen years.[/quote]

I don’t think you can expect triplets to have the same sense of privacy around each other that they would about strangers in a locker room.[/quote]

But at what point should they be encouraged to separate? They do need to learn privacy even around each other, at some point. Unless you think that being triplets makes it fine for them to shower together until they leave for college--? I'm sure you'll say it's all fine, nothing untoward is going on, posters here have sick minds, triplets have a special bond since they were in utero (as another PP put it), etc. etc. I just wonder whether they need to be taught soon that it's simply time to give each other more space. It's normal for siblings to start wanting and giving space as they get older. Even triplets or twins. [/quote]

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