Dad's Guide to Twins

The First Year with Twins: Survival Tips

Here’s some tips for surviving the first year with twins. If you can make it through this first year, you can do anything!

Twinproofing Your Home

The safety of your twins should be one of your top priorities. As such, twinproofing your home is something you need to do. What is Twinproofing? Twinproofing is how you childproof your home when you have twins. Having twins in your home requires special safety considerations. You Need Basic Childproofing for Twins Too The classic [...]

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Car Seats for Twins

Shopping for car seats for twins can be a challenge. Car seats are one of the most important things you need to buy for your babies. In fact, the medical staff won’t let you leave the hospital without car seats for your twins. Find a Car Seat You Love, Then Buy Two Unlike strollers, or [...]

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How to Get Twins to Sleep Through the Night

Your twins will wake up in the middle of the night for various different reasons. They may be hungry, fussy, need a diaper change, or just hit the end of a sleep cycle. Regardless of the reason for waking up, you need to train them to sleep through the night. Your goal is to get [...]

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Where to Shop Online for Twin Related Products

As a parent of twins, you’ll likely want to purchase twin related products like books, clothes, gifts, etc. for both your twins and yourself. Here’s a list of several online stores that offer products specifically for twins and parents of twins: Just Multiples Double Blessings Double Up Books Trends In Twos Twinz Gear Just 4 [...]

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How to Bond with Your Twins

As a father of twins, you want to bond with your twins and build a strong, lasting relationship. The key to this bond with your twins is to spend one-on-one time with each of them individually. If you spend all your time with both twins, your attention will be divided. Remember that your twins are [...]

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How much baby gear do you really need with twins?

I got the following great question from an expectant father of twins: “Do I really need all that gear and a double stroller or can I get away with one?” This question underscores one of the great concerns with having twins: the cost of all the stuff you have to get for your babies. The [...]

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5 Non-TV Ways to Keep Siblings Busy While You Tend to the Twins

If you are lucky enough to have young children in the house when twins join your family, you get the bonus of an extra adventure. A big challenge in this case is: how do you keep the older kids busy while you tend to the babies? Here are some things you can have your twins’ [...]

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Do you ever get to go out without kids again?

One of the great challenges of parenting twins is that you never get out of the house without them. If this goes on too long, it directly impacts your sanity and happiness. In fact, one parent of twins wrote and asked me, “Do you ever get to go out without kids again?” When it comes [...]

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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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