The hilarious way a mom of triplets keeps track on who is who has gone viral online for its entertaining honesty.

The aunt of the triplets, known online only as AmyJo, shared the parenting technique in a TikTok video, gaining over 1 million likes.

“I’m aunt but mom did have a brilliant idea” she wrote. The method used by the triplets’ parents to remember which is which has been praised by viewers, as some even shared similar anecdotes from their own childhoods.

In the U.S., just 2,738 triplets were born in 2020 , and identical ones can be even rarer though odds vary widely, ranging between one in 60,000 to one in 200 million. With the presence of identical triplets comes pressure to remember which one is which—a battle even their parents find themselves struggling with at times.

To combat this, the sister-in-law of AmyJo used nail polish on their toenails to differentiate each triplet from one another. Henrik has blue polish, Thomas has red and James has green.

“The triplets’ mom always knew she wanted to color code certain things with red, blue and green when she found out she was having triplets. She also had a fear of mixing them up when they were babies and never truly knowing who was who. She spent a lot of time with the nurses in the NICU when the boys were born and they shared the different ways moms of multiples helped keep track of who is who so she landed on painting one big toenail with their assigned color,”

Source: newsweek.com