This is Part Two of a three-part series: Encouraging a Healthy Bond Between Your Twins. Read Part One here. Parents of twins can help their twin children grow and preserve the twin bond. Here are additional tips: Avoid Labels In this blog post, I discussed the importance of not comparing your twin children to each […]
In my last post, I discussed the twin bond and whether it was truly unbreakable. After countless interviews with adult twins, my conclusion is that it’s not unbreakable. Like any important relationship, the twin bond needs to be developed, nurtured, and maintained. Parents of twins can help their twin children grow and preserve a healthy […]
How strong and unbreakable is the twin bond? I watched a movie called De Tweeling, per my father’s recommendation. It’s the story of twin girls whose bond was established at birth in the 1920s and sweetly cultivated in childhood. Then, at age six, they were separated. It was heart-wrenching to watch two sisters who had […]
Like all other homes of young children on the Planet Earth, Disney’s Frozen empire consumed our home. We owned a digital version of the movie, we had the soundtrack on our iPhones, and we owned every chotchke known to man that was in the likeness of Elsa, Anna, or Olaf. Indeed, from decorative hair accessories […]
You’ve probably heard of the famous twins named “Jim.” They were raised apart from the age of four weeks and were finally reunited at the age of thirty-nine. When Jim Lewis and Jim Springer reunited, they discovered some amazing similarities: they had both been named “James” by their adoptive families who did not know each […]
What happens to a person when his twin sibling dies? There is an area of research measuring the loss and grief suffered by twins when their twin siblings die. Identical twins tend to suffer more greatly than fraternal twins, but both sets generally feel a greater sense of grief than their non-twin counterparts do when […]
I’m one of those people for whom parenting is not intuitive. I didn’t know that you weren’t supposed to use the word “no” in your baby’s first year lest she becomes more obstinate when she starts to challenge your authority. I didn’t know that television was so bad, or that alone-play was so good. I […]