Help & Advice

Advice to Mothers

• Schedule them to do their daily chores at once. This will make it appear less repetitive! This way you too would get some time for yourself.

• You can get them habituated to eat everything by inducing a gentle competition between them.

• If you want to dress them identically, but don't have choices in ready made garments, don't feel low, go for the tailor made!

• You will have to stretch your ingenuity when it comes to dousing the situation wherein both of them are competing for the same thing. Getting two of the same thing might not always be the solution even if you had the resources for it.

• There are times when, if one of them is cranky, the other turns unusually calm and accommodative.

Advice to Fathers

• You will need to do the copy paste without computers, so perfect your ability to repeat the same thing, again and again!

• Help your wife as much as you can.

• Keep your hands free; get a twins pram!

• Never admit that you often cannot tell them apart!

Advice to Twins

• Identify yourself correctly only to your parents. You are free to decide in the other cases

Encourage Individuality:

Twins, are children who get along more or less easily with each other just like other siblings. At times, twins may behave as if they are one person, thinking, speaking and moving alike. It is their separateness that needs to be emphasized. For the development of each twin, it is very important that both of you spend individual time with each baby.
To nurture the individuality, it might make sense for one parent focusing on one child at a time than both focusing on both.

As parents, day in and day out we get to observe them together. Despite of all the similarities in upbringing, there are differences. This is what makes you more appreciative of the inborn traits! Once you have this appreciation, you will respect their individuality as well! Parents to singletons probably never get such an opportunity of comparison and appreciation.