Moms of multiples tell it like it is

I used to know how to go grocery shopping with Tiny and Buba. We would go to the large grocery store just down the road, and I could push both of my kids in the stroller (facing each other so they could entertain each other while I shopped) while I pulled the cart behind me. [...]

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This is the story (TRUE STORY!) of two MOTs who independently decide to take their twins to the same indoor playspace on the same day…
It was perhaps a month or so ago. I made a point of getting Buba and Tiny up and ready to go as quickly as I could so we could arrive [...]

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My sweeties are about 1 1/2 now and suddenly have these smart, amazing minds of their own.  Which of course is a fabulous thing… or is it?!  They would rather walk than be in their stroller, they want to do things for themselves (ie when taking a drink from Mommy’s cup, they want to hold [...]

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You’d think that, at 2.5, I’d know how to play with my children.  And to a large extent, of course, I do.  But the truth is that I spend a large portion of the day coordinating, shuttling, refereeing, and then getting out of the way when they’re actually playing nicely with one another. We go [...]

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I once read a response on a message board that said something like, Every mom uses TV to occupy their kids, even infants, so she can accomplish things around the house. Any mom who tells you that her kids don’t watch TV is obviously lying. For a bit of context, the comment was in response to [...]

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I’m a rip-off-the-bandaid kind of person, at least as far as parenting goes.  In most things, I have no interest in dragging out the process.  I’d rather have one really horrible week and then have something be over, instead of going back and forth for months on end.
Call me a sadist, but I actually kind [...]

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November and December were great months at my house. Tiny and Buba were in great spirits almost all the time. They talked and laughed all day long and were great at entertaining each other when I needed to be doing things around the house.
But, HOLY COW, have things changed dramatically in the last two weeks [...]

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We often walk the fifty or so yards from our home to a small neighborhood park. It is a trip we’ve taken hundreds of times and hundreds ever since the kids could barely walk. Oh, maybe we’d take a push cart or wagon when they were new walkers and the distance to the [...]

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My children have a problem. An addiction. Something they ask for morning, noon, and night. (Even more than they ask for TV.)
My kids are smoothie addicts.

It’s all my mom’s fault. She’s the one who introduced the smoothie into our lives. And indulged the kids’ every-morning request when we stayed at her house for the holidays [...]

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As we sent our daughter into time-out last night, for who knows what offense, my husband made a comment to me. “Do you notice that we almost never put them in time-out at the same time?” And it’s true.  Very seldom do they both behave poorly enough at the same time to warrant simultaneous time-outs.
Even [...]

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