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.

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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How to Transition Twins to Big Beds

My wife and I were talking on Sunday night when we heard a thump from the girls’ room. I went to investigate and found one of our girls standing next to her sister’s crib, talking with her. I put the jailbreaker back in her crib and said good night. Almost as soon as I closed [...]

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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 Help Twins Feel Uniquely Celebrated on Birthdays

Your twins will have to do a lot of things together as they grow up. Since they are the same age and maybe even the same gender, they will likely share the same clothes, room, toys, friends, classes, and more. Your child’s birthday should be a celebration of him or her. However, this celebration gets [...]

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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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Your Twin Toddler Forecast: Twinadoes

Your toddler twins will put on a show that can only be described as “twinadoes.” Imagine the Tazmanian Devil from the Looney Tunes cartoons. He spins like crazy, leaving a wake of destruction in his path. Then, he takes a quick break, looks around and starts spinning again. Here is a video of the Tazmanian [...]

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Things I Didn’t Expect with Twins

There have been some aspects of raising twins that are par for the course and pretty similar to our experience in raising our singletons. However, there have been some surprising things about twins, as well. I have been surprised: By how many diapers we’d go through. It seems that they get used up as fast [...]

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How many diapers do you need for twins?

One of the big expenses with raising twins is diapers. From the day they are born until they master potty training and keeping their pants dry overnight, you’ll need to buy diapers. Twin Diaper Usage Newborns average about 10 diapers a day per baby. So your newborn twins will need about 10 diapers X 30 [...]

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