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Rules of the Game:
When Twins Play Together
My fraternal twins are great playmates, which can be both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, they have this incredible imagination and the ability to turn virtually anything into a game. Take this afternoon, for instance.
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Twins and Fairness
One night while standing in front of my sons’ closet trying to choose their clothes for the next day of school, I reached for a collared polo shirt for one boy and then almost instinctively found myself searching for a similar collared polo shirt for his co-twin.
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Nurturing the Twin Bond
Like many multiples, my fraternal twin boys are close but it wasn’t until recently that I was reminded how strong their bond truly is. I was going through their school backpacks, leafing through graded class assignments when one in particular caught my eye. The heading read, “My Best Friend,” and there was a crayon rendering of both my twins holding hands with big smiles on their faces. Just the sight of it made my eyes well up with tears.
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Getting out of the House withTwins
With the dog days of summer quickly approaching, I’m desperately searching for ideas on what to do in August with my young brood. Every day I add another kid-friendly venue within a 100-mile radius to my growing list—parks, museums, the movies. (Would a trip to the Mojave Desert really be too hot now?)
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Tips for Taming Twin Toys
If you’ve ever stepped barefoot on a Lego piece left laying in the hallway, accidentally set off an electronic robot in the middle of the night, or spent the better part of a Saturday afternoon searching for the missing piece to your twins’ Big Bird jigsaw puzzle, then it’s time to rethink how your kids organize their toys.
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Could it be Perimenopause?
One day shortly after my fortieth birthday, I noticed that nearly everything that my three young sons said or did irritated me beyond reproach. Now some compassionate readers may say, “Hey, kids will do that to you,” and on any other day I would agree. But on this particular day, it was different. I felt uncomfortable in my own skin. I couldn’t control the stern words spewing from my mouth; it felt as if someone else were speaking them.
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How a Women’s Support Group Can Help You
When Heidi Rome, 47, was pregnant two years ago with her first child, she did what most expectant moms do—she signed up for pregnancy preparation and parenting classes. “I had this fantasy that having a baby would open the door to all these new moms, new friends,” remembers the New York City marketing director. Yet when she got to class and looked around she quickly realized that she was much older than most of the other new moms.
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Tips for Selling Your Twins’ Toys on eBay
I’ve just held my tenth garage sale of the year—in cyberspace, that is. You see I’m hooked on eBay. It started innocently enough with a piece of vintage Fiesta, that highly collectable colorful dinnerware from the 1930s and 40s. I had collected the stuff for years and had one piece that I never used and frankly didn’t want any longer. I thought of selling it.
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