tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30609476025652822212025-03-25T02:52:53.189+00:00With twin toddlers there are not enough hours in the day and not enough in the night time either.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3060947602565282221.post-60385645866501815222024-07-26T08:21:00.003+01:002024-07-26T08:21:38.493+01:00

 What a wild ride it's been.Looking back at this blog I am kicking myself for not being consistent because it is nice to look back at the snapshots. I can't believe I haven't posted in 10 years.Still this isn't my only record of parenting twins through their childhood. What is interesting as I look back is how important different issues were at different times.I seem to recall a low point

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Is it biology? Is there a female and a male brain or are our differences down to our life experiences from an early age? The truth is, despite trying to treat them the same I have found for many reasons my twins have had different lives from an early age. 1. The way other people treat them.  Other people give them toys to play with based on gender even if I do not. 2. Their personalities

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As one of my twins has multiple allergies - peanuts, pecans, walnuts and contact with nickel, I was fascinated to watch the recent Horizon TV programme, evidence was presented that gut flora is important and this is colonized during the first year of life. What was interesting to me is that as far as I can recall my fraternal twins had the same first year: both breast fed, both natural birth,

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I'm not the only mum thinking about her children today.  It is moving up day so my big boy gets a taster day in his new school and the twins get and hour an a half (really!) in reception class in their new school.  Thankfully I do not need to be dropping off and collecting all at the same time. Unfortunately darling daughter is a little poorly today so we just went to see her class

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Still a year to go before they start school when they will probably be the oldest in the class.  Their September birth puts them at a great advantage when it comes to education and to think that if they had been born just a couple of weeks earlier we would be shopping for school uniforms now. My boy is now out of nappies - it seemed it would never happen but success was achieved easily when

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It seemed like for ever before they would reach that age of almost 3 and a half and qualify for 15 hours each free at nursery. But that time is here and they have started. 3 full days I can drop them a little after 8am when on the school run but be home again before the rush hour congestion is really under way. What luxury - a new life, eating my porridge in peace listening to the Today Programme

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I don't know whether this is a FACT but i have been told it is generally true that twins children are often about 6 months behind other children in development. That would certainly account for the slow potty training, which I have mentioned before. There are other things: Son didn't walk until he was 18 months! Daughter was just about 11-12 months. Neither of the twins had smiled at all when

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I was a little embarrassed that my son reached his third birthday in nappies. I can't remember when his twin sister mastered knickers and the potty but she was about 2 and a half, which also seemed a little old. I kept trying to get her going sooner but she really wasn't ready. But once she got the hang of it she was quickly dry at night too. Now our son. About a week after his third

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I haven't got this issue about Twins but it looks interesting. You can see more here: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/01/twins/miller-text

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As the summer holidays are about to start we have discovered that a substantial number of children in the same class as our eldest are all signed up for summer tutorials in preparation for the 11+ which is taken in Sept at the beginning of year six. No my son is not in year 5 but year 4. The 11+ is 14 months away. I looked on some websites and it seems lucky that I didn't delay. The more

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All advice is welcome as I am at a loss. My first child was out of nappies at 2 years 4 months and it took him less than a week to master pants and blader control once he decided he wanted to do it. I was told girls are faster at these things so when I had the twins... well at 2 years+ my daughter was leaking like a... well she liked to drink lots of water and without a nappy she was like a

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We are going to visit a nursery this morning. The twins are entitled to their free hours from next January and that time will be here soon. i know you need to ook well ahead if you want certain days in popular nurseries. Without their free hours it will cost about £18 per hour to send two of them to nursery, such a lot of money! So i am doing my reseach. Some will charge exrta if you are

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My daughter had Chicken Pox and there was no sign of them on her twin brother. The GP told me two things. The boy would develop all the symptoms exactly 14 days later and he would get it worse. Well, the 14 days are correct. Amazing! I don't know whether it will be worse as the poorly symptoms are just starting and I don't know why the GP made such a prediction. More about Chicken Pox on my

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 I have noticed that my three children most often get sick enough for me to want a clinical opinion at the weekend.  Usually Saturday just after normal GP suggeries have closed. I don't think there is any answer as to why, how do their little bodies know that most medical staff have gone home? Yesterday was a typical example.  Boy twin was coughing and a bit miserable Friday night

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I was enjoying an outdoor cup of coffee at a cafe in the sun today, while the twins were playing in the dirt, when a very smart twin pushchair came up and loitered along side me.  I was fascinated to see it in action because it was an iCandy. In case you do not know the iCandy is reputedly one of the most desirable twin strollers.  It can take twins from birth and is a travel system

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My twins are only two years old, they could not be more different and they are boy girl but i can see a definite reason to choose identical everything for them. They have both wanted a beanbag seat, like their older brothers.  When granny bought two last week they have fought over who with have the red one with numbers.  Can you believe neither of them want the one with police cars and

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I was interested to see Haven faced criticism on TV's watchdog a few days ago as I have just returned from one of the featured sites: Coombe Haven at Hastings.  I have been there before and I think it is such good value for money that I have booked to go on two holdays next year at two different Haven caravan holiday parks. Haven Coombe Haven on Watchdog Having said all that I would

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I had seen inhalers and big scary face masks and plastic spacers prescribed to young kids left right and centre.  But had no idea how you would teach a toddler to breath in the medicine from the ventalin inhaler through this big plastic transparent contraption. If there is one good thing about being admitted to a Hospital Children's Ward for a few days is that you get to learn how to

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An extra special birthday treat for twin 1. On his second birthday he took a ride in an ambulance to A&E and was admitted to the children's ward for 2 nights because of asthma.  I stayed with him, of course.  Dad, granny and others stepped in to keep the other children safe. As I've had asthma myself I could totally identify with how he felt.  No energy, just wanting to sit

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I am pleased to report that both of the twins are quite fond of wearing their sun hats.  They also like having sun cream applied and love having their nails cut. Our daughter is going to be an artist, she likes to get very creative with her food and any mucky stuff she can get her hands on.  Yes she appears to be left handed. Boy, on the other hand, does not like to get his hands

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At almost 18 months to the day, now boy twin is really walking.  He will go across the room, pick things up and carry them and looks really pleased with himself and his new skill.  His twin sister has been doing this for almost 6 months. They are also mastering feeding themselves.  They have been playing with food for a long time but just in the past week or two they have bbeen

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Delighted to read that a longitudinal study has found that women who drink wine gain less weight than the teetotaller and the beer drinkers.  It seeems something is happening in the metabolic process so that calories in wine do not so easily turn into fat around the tummy!  It must be true, I read it in the Times this Sunday. My personal guess is that the no-alcohol women were

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I took the twins to Helter Skelter in Broadstairs, a play centre for children aged 0 - 8, on Monday. What  a nice surprise when the lady at reception asked if they were twins because they do discount. I think it is two for the price of one and half! HS in Broadstairs is new, it is in York Street behind the Methodist church hall.  It is quite small, I guess compact.  Well

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Twin 1 has just started taking his first steps, at 17 months of age. He is following in his older brother's footstep as he was also 17 months when he started to walk. Twin 2, however, she has been walking for ages, around about her first birthday. I am told girls are usually advanced. Well I can see a big difference in these two, but I know of boys who were walking at 9 months so I'm not sure if

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Whilst one has porcelain soft skin the other has suffered from dry skin and eczema since whenever I can remember. Red, Sore, Weeping in the Creases: ankles, knees, wrists and hands It was last summer when he was about 9 or 10 months old when the weeping wounds on his ankles were bad enough to warrant a trip to the Doctor. Remember, I have twins, so I simply do not make appointments and I never

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