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Raising Twins: What Parents Want to Know (And What Twins Want to Tell Them)

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Manufacturer: Collins Living
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Raising Twins guides you through the physical, emotional, and cognitive developmental differences and challenges specific to twins. Straightforward and reassuring, this book addresses the key issues that impact twins from babyhood all the way through adolescence:

• Sharing and comparisons

• Competition and rivalry

• The "secret language" of twins

• The good twin/bad twin myth

• Teen-specific issues like dating and applying for college

• And much more including lively, candid discussions with twins and their parents

DESCRIPTION:

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 649.144
EAN: 9780062736802
ISBN: 0062736809
Label: Collins Living
Manufacturer: Collins Living
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: 2000-06-01
Publisher: Collins Living
Release Date: 2000-05-03
Studio: Collins Living


SIMILAR ITEMS:

• Double Duty: The Parents' Guide to Raising Twins, from Pregnancy through the School Years (2nd Edition)
• The Art of Parenting Twins: The Unique Joys and Challenges of Raising Twins and Other Multiples
• Emotionally Healthy Twins: A New Philosophy for Parenting Two Unique Children
• Ready or Not . . . There We Go!: The REAL Experts' Guide to the Toddler Years with Twins
• Ready or Not Here We Come!: The Real Experts' Guide to the First Year With Twins


CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Customer Rating:
Summary: Great book in great shape
Comment: This book was in great shape when I got it just as they stated it would be. Thank you!

Customer Rating:
Summary: A Solid Treatment of Many Issues
Comment: The Pearlman book is quite good on many fronts, including the use of interviews with twins and parents and the dispelling of twin myths. The section on twin language and language acquisition is quite good, as are the sections on development of individual personalities. As with many such books, I found that I will need to read it again later as our daughters grow, but one of the merits of the book is that it does address issues of concern at many ages.

Several of the twin interviews seemed to be too short -- the interviewees likely had much more to say and while it would be tedious to read pages and pages unedited, doubling the length of many of them in the next edition would illustrate the points better.

On a minor issue, the book can be annoying in some places where pronoun use renders the passages confusing. Keeping the pronouns straight is especially important when an underlying theme is the complexity of relationships between twins themselves and with family members and other third parties.



Customer Rating:
Summary: Practical Twin Interviews are Interesting Read
Comment: From a mother of 4 year old boy/girl twins... I read this book cover to cover when I was expecting. I felt that the interviews really provided very good insight into what it felt like to be a "twin" and brought up some interesting issues that I had not considered (ie - how to dress, how to help them be individual, etc). I thought it was very good - and entertaining. If you are an experienced mother, then most twin books will not be that useful. The best thing to do is join a twin club and get your practical advice from other parents - as the issues at each developmental stage are soo different. The reality is that there isn't a practical guide out there that really will spell it all out for you... and we are still learning.. Even "twins" can't be classified.

Have fun !

Customer Rating:
Summary: Very Basic
Comment: This book is very good if you know absolutely nothing about twins. It is very broad in its scope. So, if you are looking for general information about twins from conception through adulthood this book is a good overview. If you are looking for specific knowledge about the care of twin infants/babies/toddlers - get a different book.


Customer Rating:
Summary: Not for parents of identicals
Comment: This isn't a bad book for parents of fraternal twins, but I found nothing in it that dealt with the issues that can arise with identical twins. I am still trying to find a book that deals more specifically with raising identicals.

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