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.

Essential Supplies You’ll Need to Potty Train Twins

When it is time to potty train your twins, make sure you have the right supplies on hand. Knowledge Before you begin potty training your twins, you need a plan. Ideally, this plan will cover what you will do and say, and how you will respond, react, encourage, support, clean-up, practice, help, and teach your [...]

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When to Potty Train Twins

When is the right time to potty train your twins? You may hear a lot about readiness and how to determine if your child is ready, but I’ll save you some time: blow past all of that fluff. It really doesn’t matter so much if your twins are ready as much as it matters that [...]

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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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How to Get a Babysitter for Your Twins

Even though you will be in a fog most of your twins’ first year, you will eventually want to go out on a date with your wife. You’ll need a babysitter if you want to leave the house without the twins. Getting a babysitter for twins is a little more complicated than with a singleton. [...]

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Twins Advantage: Learning to Share Early

Your twins have shared even the very basics of life since they were in-utero and waiting to be born. There they shared nourishment from mother as well as very tight living quarters. Upon arrival, your twins will likely share feeding times, cribs, clothes, and toys. Out of necessity and circumstances, your twins have been sharing [...]

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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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7 Tips to Help You Enjoy Christmas with Twins

The Christmas season is a joyful time to spend with your family, including your twins. Just how ready you need to be will be based on how old your twins are when December 25th rolls around. If your twins are one year old or younger, then don’t worry too much. Just like with their first [...]

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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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The Cheapest Way to Fly with Toddler Twins

Just because you have twins doesn’t mean you can’t go on vacation. It just means travel won’t be as easy as it was before they joined your family. Traveling on a plane with twins can be done, you just need to be prepared. The extra cost of flying with twins is a major factor when [...]

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