Poll: Do Your Twins Play the Same Sports?
Monday July 16, 2007
Sports and activities are an important part of many children's lives. For twins and multiples, it can be an opportunity to cultivate individual interests, or to channel their sense of competition into performance success. What about your family? Answer this week's Parent's Poll.
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My girls are both swimmers and swim on the same swim team, but they like different strokes. They also each play their own seasonal sport - one likes volleyball and the other likes basketball.
My three year old boy/girl fraternal twins have just started to do differen’t activities. As my daughter is in ballet because she has shown an interest and my son loves soccer. They meet up for swimming lessons. They are enjoying their independence from each other but also enjoy being together.
Our 9 year old daughter plays on a travel soccer team but her twin brother who had physical therapy for his first 6 years and is relatively minor low muscle tone does not play sports.
My boys will be 5 in a couple of months and have played T-ball, flag football, basketball, and soccer twice, all on the same teams. They are still young though so I am sure as they get older they may want to play different sports from one another.
My girl/boy twins play in Little League–same team. If they wanted different activities, I’d allow that, but if they’re in the same activity I want them on the same team. The different teams play on the same night/same time but different parks, and I just don’t want to be in the position of having to choose which twin I’m going to be watching.
My girls are 14. They play soccer together on the same team, but their other interest are different. One likes basketball and soft ball. The other doesn’t like any other type of sport. I have never made them do the same thing, but I have asked that they try it at least once.
My fraternal twin boys are 17. They’ve played the same sports ever since they started playing soccer at age 4. Reasons? Small town, limited # of teams, they had a built-in practice mate (their brother), and because being on the same team allows much easier after-school practice/game schedule. At times, they were involved in four sports simultaneously. I can’t even imagine going 8 different directions instead of 4. I don’t now how parents of opposite sex children do it!
one of my fraternal twin boys plays sports the other one does not but my girl/boy twins both play sports but different ones.
my identical boys that are going to be seniors in the fall have played the same sports since they were 5 years old. They are 3 year letter football, wrestling, they also played baseball, and swimteam until start of high school, were they had to choose their fav sports.