Dad's Guide to Twins

Twin Communication

Communicating with your twins and how they talk with each other.

Using Positive Peer Pressure to Your Advantage with Twins

A wonderful advantage of twins is built-in peer pressure. Be it good or bad, you’ll find your twins mimicking or following each other. If left unchecked, this can become a downward spiral of bad behavior. On the other hand, with some gentle guidance and praise, it can encourage good behavior. Fortunately, you can leverage your [...]

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Twins Don’t Initially Think of Themselves as Twins

Your twins will recognize themselves as siblings–brothers or sisters–before they realize they are twins. Twin Label The label of “twins” seems to be pressed upon your twins instead of being something that they naturally recognize and claim for themselves. The “twin” label seems to be a reference point that is picked up later in life [...]

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Twins Have Their Own Language

As soon as your twins can make a sound, they will start to “talk” to each other. I started to notice this when our girls were a few months old. Our twins shared a crib for several months before we separated them into their own cribs. Since they were in separate cribs but slept in [...]

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Call Your Twins Individually and Not as a Pair

Once your twins are old enough to crawl, they will find ways to move away from you when you want them to go somewhere or do something. When you want your twins to pay attention to you, it will be quicker to say “come on girls” or “let’s go boys” than it is to say [...]

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Help Others Identify Your Twins

As a parent of twins, telling your twins apart will come naturally. It might not happen right at the beginning, but it will happen. You’ll be able to tell your twins apart even if you can’t tell other sets of twins apart. Just like you have trouble identifying which twin is which in other families, [...]

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Always Referring to Twins in the Same Order

When you talk about your twins in the third person, you will find that you always refer to them in a particular order. For example, if you have twin girls whose names are Mary and Beth, you may always talk about them as “Mary and Beth” and not “Beth and Mary”. The pattern that you [...]

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How to Tell Identical Twins Apart on a Phone Call

I reached a milestone recently where I can actually tell my toddler twins apart when I talk to them on the phone. While it isn’t foolproof, it has definitely helped me distinguish with whom I’m speaking. Since your identical twins’ voices may very well be identical too, the key to hearing the difference is in [...]

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How to Teach Your Twins to Share

With twins in the house a big point of contention will be sharing. The easy way for you as the parent would be to get two of everything. However, this surely won’t work all the time and definitely doesn’t build character. And as we all know, your job as a dad, of course, is to [...]

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