Mum of triplets compares their very different colouring styles: 'Why they say not to compare'
By Merryn Porter |
They say you should never compare children, and this is especially true about your own.
Now a mother-of-triplets has proven just how different children can be after she compared the colouring-in sheets of her three-year-old girls.
The US woman, took to her TikTok account to show off their handiwork in a video, which has since gone viral, racking up a staggering 15.3 million views.
Watch the video above.
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?The woman, who calls herself Knox Outnumbered, is a mother of four who shares mainly parenting related content about "navigating this crazy triplets curveball" with her 45,000 followers.
She recently took to TikTok to show off the handiwork of her three-year-old daughters in a short seven-second video. Across the screen is written, "Why they say not to compare your triplets."
Each of the girls had been tasked with completing a simple colour-by-numbers style rainbow. ?
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The video starts with a rainbow completed by Cecilia. The sheet has been sparsely coloured in parts, although she has selected the correct colour.
Next, the video shows the work of Lily. It looks like the typical colouring of a toddler. She started off following the suggested colour? scheme on the left-hand side, before losing focus by the time she got to the other side.
Some of her strokes have remained inside the lines, while others have not.
?The third and final colouring-in sheet was done by Kaylee and is a work of art.
She has selected the correct colour for every part of the rainbow. Her strokes are measured and each go the same way, and she has stayed almost entirely inside the lines.
Knox uploaded the video with the comment: "Disclaimer: I love all of my children equally and don't judge their worth based on how well they colour in the lines," and the hashtags #triplets and #toddlers.
It has received 1.7 million likes and 4800 comments. Many commenters were amazed at the different abilities, while some predicted the girls' personalities and even future careers. One even suggested Kaylee was the eldest triplet, which her mother confirmed.
"Cecilia is sceptical and cautious, Lily is the wild spirit and Kaylee is the organised perfectionist," wrote one commenter.
"The first and the second use their creativity and not the instructions," said another, while another wrote. "The first two just think outside the box."
"Respect for Lily and Cecilia," said another.
"Kaylee is a future artist, architect or engineer soo much precision in her work," wrote another. "Kaylee is the one with patience," was another comment.
"Kaylee is going to be someone," said another.
Others felt there was a lesson for parents, one commenter writing: "Best lesson for EVERY parent, so glad you see it now, each child has their own unique strengths."
But others were alarmed by Kaylee's perfect colouring, and suggested it could mean she was on the autism spectrum or perhaps suffered obsessive compulsive disorder.
Their mum addressed this and responded to some of the other comments in a follow-up video where she expressed surprise at how the video "blew up."
Showing Kaylee in front of a picture of her rainbow she said, "A lot of you doubted if she actually coloured that in, she did."
"Even though Kaylee's fine motor skills are above average ?to say the least, the point was that they are just also very different and it says more about their personalities than anything else," she continued.
"It was so cool to see all the comments of you guys guessing the triplets' different personalities based off how they coloured their rainbow."
Regarding comments that Kaylee's ability might mean she had autism, OCD, "or be a psychopath," she said she would always take into consideration any concerns or recommendations from the children's teachers or paediatricians but "up to this point with Kaylee, there have been none."
She said that as a elementary school teacher herself, she had not seen any signs of "autism or anything like that."
"She's a bright, happy, healthy, bubbly, silly, sweet girl who really, really loves to colour. But she also loves to laugh and play, sing and dance, and explore and get dirty," the mum said.
"She loves art. She is our bright ray of sunshine. The other two girls are just as unique and special in their own ways."
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