Twins
4 articles
Family Life
Sharing Resources Fairly in a Family With Twins
"Mine!" is a developmentally normal word at eighteen months. It's also the soundtrack of a household with twins, repeated in stereo. Two children at e...
Family Life
Family Life With Twins: Daily Challenges
Parents of singletons sometimes assume parenting twins is just "twice as much" parenting. It isn't, in either direction — it's a different shape of wo...
Family Life
Supporting Each Child's Individuality in Twins
The world treats twins as a category before it treats them as people. From pregnancy onwards — "are you having the twins?" — the language collapses tw...
Family Life
Raising Twins: Development, Bonding, and Practical Realities
Twins are not "two babies" in the parenting sense — they are a different category of operation. Two simultaneous wakings at 3am. Two simultaneous napp...