I’ve found that I mentally separate moms of twins into two categories. On one hand are the TWIN MOMS, who are really into having twins. They wear the t-shirts, have the bumper stickers, their kids always match, etc. On the other hand are the twin moms. Lower case. They are the ones who were always [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Behavior'
We attend the Twins Days Festival, and I fail to adequately twin it up
August 17th, 2010 by Jen from Diagnosis: Urine · 15 Comments
Tags: Activities · Behavior · Celebrations · Fraternal · Identical · Mommy Issues · Other people · Parenting Twins · Relationships · Singletons · Twin Types
My Child, The Starfish
July 7th, 2010 by Rachel · 8 Comments
So the twins are almost 27 months now and we’ve been in a phase of NoMommyIDoItMyself for several months now. That, we’ve got down. It’s the new-within-the-last six weeks Starfish Syndrome that is new for us. Our most independent, most spirited twin has taken to wanting ME to do EVERYTHING when an adult is needed. [...]
Give Us Any Chance, We’ll Take It
June 24th, 2010 by reanbean · 8 Comments
It seems that my two-year-olds have decided to live by the lyrics from the old Laverne & Shirley theme song. Give them any chance, they’ll take it. Give them any rule, they’ll break it. Thankfully it’s not (yet) all day everyday, but there are moments when I’d swear I was in the presence of wild [...]
Tags: Behavior · Parenting Twins · Toddlers
Twin B, my sweet P, is coming into his own
May 18th, 2010 by Jen from Diagnosis: Urine · 7 Comments
Thanks for all your support and encouragement following my last post, about my twins’ speech issues. Flying high with the momentum provided by your comments, I followed up with the intervention team, and we had a meeting on Friday. The news was good: the boys’ speech errors are age-appropriate, but they will be part of [...]
Tags: Behavior · Development · Preschoolers
Keeping Score
May 13th, 2010 by reanbean · 4 Comments
It’s been happening for a while now. And it’s a little irritating. Tiny will say, “Like Buba” and that’s my warning that somehow she’s notice an inequality. Suddenly she’s keeping score, and she wants everything to be even between the two of them. If Buba gets his lunch on a blue plate, Tiny needs her [...]
Miss Manners
May 11th, 2010 by Goddess in Progress · 19 Comments
You can call me crazy, you can call me old-fashioned. But I say it’s never too early to teach your kids good manners. I don’t run some kind of courtesy boot-camp at my house. I don’t believe children should be seen and not heard (OK, sometimes I’d like to believe that). My kids can be [...]
Tags: Behavior · Preschoolers · Toddlers
The Alpha Twin
April 8th, 2010 by reanbean · 16 Comments
I don’t know if it’s because she’s a girl, or because she’s “baby A”, or because this is just who she is, but Tiny is definitely the alpha twin in our house. She commands her brother, Buba, to do things (Buba, come!), to get things (Go get monkey!), and to give up things (I need [...]
Unlike Any Other
April 5th, 2010 by Goddess in Progress · 9 Comments
If there’s anything I’ve learned in the last two months, it is this simple truth: potty training is completely unlike all previous transitions of baby- and toddler-hood. The moms of older kids are just shaking their heads and chuckling at me right now, and that’s just fine. We all come to these realizations in our [...]
Tags: Behavior · Development · Preschoolers · Toddlers · potty training
Toddlers
March 23rd, 2010 by amy · 5 Comments
My sister (who has a 2 1/2 year old) and I (18 month old twins) always laugh about the fact that we will not ‘potty in peace’ for many years to come. I mean really, Reese and Riley- can’t Mommy sneak away for a quick moment without you accompanying me into the tiniest space in [...]
Tags: Behavior · Parenting Twins · Toddlers
Back Two the Future: “Which one is the evil twin?”
February 16th, 2010 by Jen from Diagnosis: Urine · 15 Comments
Have you been asked this? I’m sure we’ve all gotten variations of the question. “Who is more outgoing?” “Is one good and one bad?” “What are their personalities like?” Once someone asked me which one was my favorite. I don’t mind the questions, especially the “rude” ones, because usually I can joke about it and [...]
Tags: Behavior · Other people · Preschoolers

