Dad's Guide to Twins

Being a Father of Twins: a Twin Dad’s Toughts

What it is like to be a father of twins. Thoughts, challenges, joys, and insight into the adventure of being a twin dad.

Tips to Enjoy the Quickly Passing Moments with Infant Twins

Newborn twins will wear you out and make you miserable — if you let them. However, the misery can be countered by the happy and joyful moments of watching your little twins. If you don’t pay attention to the joy of your little twins, you’ll soon realize they have grown up and you didn’t notice. [...]

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5 Ways to Help People Recognize Your Twins as Individuals

A common concern of parents of twins is “How can I help people recognize my kids as individuals and not just as “the twins”?” It is easy for most people to see a pair of twins and automatically group them together. It is a shortcut because most people don’t care or have the time to [...]

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Key Mindset with Twins: Today’s Challenge Is Only Temporary

At every stage of your twins’ progress, from pregnancy onwards, there will be challenges. You’ll deal with physical burdens, mental strain, marital frustrations, discipline issues, feeding problems, and tons of messes. One way to keep your sanity is to remember that the current moment is only temporary. There is an extra heavy dose of craziness [...]

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How to Deal with Decreased Marital Intimacy After Twins Are Born

I’ve gotten emails from a few dads asking about the decrease in marital intimacy and related bedroom activities after the twins are born. How can you keep the relationship with your wife alive and well? How can you prepare for this? The newborn months with twins are such a blur that everything reverts to survival [...]

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How to Tell Newborn Twins Apart in Pictures

With all the pictures you are taking of your newborn twins, how will you tell them apart? When your twins arrive, they will be swaddled up by the nurses at the hospital and whisked away to the nursery to warm up and be measured. Since the hospital has a standard set of blankets and head [...]

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Can both parents keep working after twins?

An expectant twin dad wrote and asked, “Can both parents keep working after twins?” The short answer is yes, they can. If you both really want to, you can make it happen. However, you both have to really want to work. If one or the other parent is at all a little undecided about this, [...]

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How can I love my twins as much as my other child?

An expectant twin father that already has a son asks, “How can I love more children as much as I love my current son?” This frequently asked question is one asked by most fathers, particularly those having a second child (and third in the case of twins). As you begin the parenthood journey, you grow [...]

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How to Juggle Time Demands with Twins and a Toddler

I got a great question this week from an expectant twin father who already has a young son at home. He wondered about how he would juggle time demands with twins and a toddler. Having a toddler by himself is a handful for any parent. When you combine that with newborn twins, things get really [...]

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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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Why the Turn Timer will Save Your Sanity with Twins

One of the joys of twins is that they learn to share early in life. Faced with a constant companion that often wants whatever limited resource is at hand, your twins will share or fight. The sharing moments make you smile, verbally praise your kids, and feel satisfied that they will turn out OK in [...]

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