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I have two openings now. I have had an email for twin 17 month old boys but I have heard awful things here and elsewhere about transitioning twins. The mom sounds wonderful, a school counselor, but the daycare situation sounds like a nightmare. The boys go with one person two days a week, a relative two days a week, another babysitter for the last day. She is wanting to go with one daycare three days a week and the relative still help out the other two. She did say that the boys climb all over everything and run off in public (yikes!) so those are her concerns with them being here (we regularly take walks). Dare I even give them a trial period? I have never transitioned two kids at a time before.
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I had a set of twins when I first opened. A boy and a girl. They were preemies and didn't start coming until they were 4 months old (although they were like newborn then because they only weighed 8 lbs when they started!)
I had them 3 days a week and I watched them for about 5 months. Grandma was watching them the other 2 days per week and offered to take them on full time. The last time I talked to DCM, the kids were just starting to walk. I knew it probably wouldn't be much longer that Granny would watch them since they got mobile. I was right. DCM dropped down to Part time at work and Granny went back to watching them part time only!:
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I got twins when they were 19 months (girl and boy). I love them to pieces, but they are a lot of work. Way more work than if you were to take 2 separate kids from 2 separate families, and way more work than regular siblings.
Twins make everything more difficult because they typically do everything at the same time. Mine went through biting stages, clumsy stages, potty training (still working on that), etc all at the same time, which is very exhausting. You also have to consider that the parents will be exhausted with two like that too- toenails aren't always clipped when they need to be, they aren't bathed every night, and their behavior is not as good as one would like, because it is just plain hard on the parents. They bicker and pick at each other a lot more.
On the positive side, they also love each other a lot more, you get 2 incomes, if one is sick they usually both stay home (well, not mine but I was dumb not to have a sibling sickness clause), and they can get pretty fun when you aren't working your butt off. I feel like a referee most of the time.
If you have the energy and patience, do it, otherwise you will burn out.
Since my twins came back from their few month break I have lost 7 pounds without changing any of my other habits- because they take that much hands on attention. I am happy for the exercise, but very spent.Comment
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I am against twins now, even just siblings, cuz if family leaves, you lose 2Comment
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yeah that is what I was thinking.....that it would be easier to hold out for one full time family than two part time twins. I definitely dont have the extra energy and patience truthfully because I have three kids under five of my own right now plus two daycare kids (and then my two open spots). Plus.....well, stay tuned for my next post in off topic.....so yeah, no extra energy hereComment
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I love my set of twins. When they leave for pre-k in the fall I am replacing them with another set! I wasn't looking, just worked out that way,.
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I have set of twins (boy/girl) here and they will be 4y in May. They are more work then siblings/non sibling kids and like the others said when they leave it's 2 gone right away. They are both leaving for K4 in the fall so I'll have two full time spots to fill.
Mine seem to need alot of attention and are always fighting for it, even more so than sibling kids I have here.Comment
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I LOVE my twins. They're actually triplets, but only two of them attend.Comment
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And after reading that you are having #4.... CONGRATS!!!!
And again, definitely, NAY on the twins!!
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Oh Yeah...
Well my 21 mo twins come with 2 older sibs...3 and 4! So, that's 4 of 5 from one family....
some days it's awesome man...other days it's argggggg
Double the trouble, double the fun!::
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