Is Your Family a Victim of TES (Twin Escalation Syndrome)?
Thursday August 28, 2008
There's a condition that afflicts multiples. If you're a parent, you're all too aware of it. Although it's the children that exhibit the symptoms, it is usually the parents who are most victimized by it's destructive effects. It may start as early as infancy, or may wait to rear its ugly head until the children are old enough to walk (run), talk (scream), or generally destroy everything in their path.
Do you know the symptoms of Twin Escalation Syndrome? Even better, do you know how to cure it?
The best way to survive TES is with a supportive network of fellow parents. So share your horror stories. (It will make us feel better about our own families!) Click on comments to tell your tales.
Do you know the symptoms of Twin Escalation Syndrome? Even better, do you know how to cure it?
The best way to survive TES is with a supportive network of fellow parents. So share your horror stories. (It will make us feel better about our own families!) Click on comments to tell your tales.
So that’s what it’s called. =} My kids aren’t twins (they’re about 20 months apart) and they do exactly the same thing. I suppose eventually they’ll grow out of it.
I guess I’ll have to read on to see what other tips you have for dealing with twins, since I basically have two toddlers right now!
This describes my four-year-old twin boys to a T! This is the perfect term for it. When they’re apart, they’re perfect little boys. When they’re together, chaos rules! And things just get more and more out of hand as they spur each other on to do sillier and naughtier things. Separation is the only way to get some peace. I’m glad to hear that I am not alone in dealing with this “syndrome”!
There’s a name for it? Wow. I have twin boys who turned 2 last month and they are a handful. Apart, fairly easily managed, together just unstoppable! Curious, determined, stubborn, agile and dextrous – a dreadful combination at age 2. Their latest trick? We put them to bed (and they used to go to bed beautifully
) and they get out. Now normally, I would leave them to scream and yell for a bit before going in. Now however, if I leave them for too long, they undress themselves completely. I walked in the other night to find them having a peeing competition, both naked as the day they were born!!! How on earth can I combat that? We don’t have another bedroom where I can put one of them to sleep, which would solve the problem of the competitive undressing (wouldn’t help the one who undresses himself in his sleep though…really must toilet train them now I think!). Duct tape on the nappies doesn’t work as they pull them down…does anyone have any suggestions? Parent suffering majorly from TES!!
I have twin girls age 2. They have always enjoyed tearing off every piece of clothing until they are naked. Once one starts, the other has to join in. I temporarily resolved the problem by using duct tape, then they figured out how they could help each other by tearing each others tape off. Then we started using safety pins on the crotch of their onesies, this went south fast, they learned how to open the safety pins. Now, they have pretty much stopped, but we are potty training and every time they have to pee, they strip naked! Does the vicious cycle ever end? lol
mom of 5—Nathan 16, Tanner 11, Chris 6, Taylor & Sam 2
maybe this will help with the stripping at nightit worked with my little onessleepers put on backwards with mittens sewn over the hands. its almost impossible to undo zippers with mittens on. If they manage to undo the zippers with mittens on safety pin the zippers shut a safety pin cannot be undone by a child with mittens on.