There are so many misconceptions and misunderstandings about twins and multiples. Separate the facts from the fiction.
Do you treat your twins exactly the same? Parents can spend a lot of time and effort trying to ensure that everything for their twins is fair and equal. But is that the best approach when parenting twins?
Meet the Twins of the Week! Zoe and Maddox were seven months old in this picture, showing how much they love to be outside. Click to see more pictures and learn more about them.
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A general stereotype about identical twins is that they are clones. They act alike, look alike, and are expected to be "identical." However, the term identical twins actually refers to a type of twinning, and describes how they form, not what they look like.
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One of the stickiest situations for twins is when one is invited to a birthday party or social event, and one is not included. The first time this happened to my girls was heartbreaking and quite dramatic. We'd just moved to a new neighborhood and they were in different classes for the first time. One girl was invited to a party by a boy in her class, and her sister wasn't. It wasn't an intentional slight by any means; the whole class was invited and since we were new, the party hosts didn't even know that my daughter had a twin sister. To adults, it all seems rational and reasonable, but to a six-year-old twin, it was devastating to be left out of something that her sister had access to. We had a lot of heart-to-heart talks about the hurt feelings, and I made sure to do something extra fun with her while her sister attended the birthday party. Within a few weeks, the tables turned, and someone in her class invited her to a birthday party.
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Etta and Violet are the Twins of the Week. The identical twin girls were three months old in this picture. Even at that age, they demonstrate their different personalities. Click to learn more about them.
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