Dad's Guide to Twins

Toddler Twins

Toddler twins can be a big challenge. Here are some tips for raising, handling, and parenting your toddler twins.

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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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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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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Color Coding Clothing for Identical Twins Won’t Work Forever

If you use color-coded clothing to tell your twins apart, keep in mind that this won’t last forever. We dressed our girls differently for several months after they were born. This helped us tell them apart at a glance and helped others tell our twins apart, as well. However, our little twin babies started to [...]

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How to Keep Toddler Twins Occupied on Road Trips

Taking your toddler twins on a road trip requires some planning and patience. We recently took a road trip across the country that ended up being 54 total hours in the car. Our family of six with toddler twins in tow did great and yours can, too. Think Attention Span Road trips with toddler twins [...]

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How to Get Twins Ready for Bed

Getting your twins ready for bed is often an adventure. Regardless if your twins are newborns or toddlers, you will have the daily responsibility of getting your twins ready for bed. Here are some tips I’ve found useful for getting our twin girls ready for bed: Bed Time Routine Consistency and a familiar routine are [...]

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How Twins Impact Your Laundry

Having twins means you will be doing more laundry. Just how much will depend on each twin, but I’m confident that your laundry will at least double. And no, not just double because there are two. It will likely double from what you are doing right now for the entire family. We went from a [...]

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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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How to Potty Train Twins

The time has come to potty train your twins. You’ve got your stash of supplies and are ready to go. Let the games begin. Potty training your twins really comes in two phases: teaching the skills and daily practice. Decide Which Parent Will Train Which parent should potty train the twins? You need to decide [...]

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