As a mother of twins, I enjoy reading the Twin Happy blog, and I like to participate in Twin Happy Jen’s Twin Tuesday meme on Twitter.
 
Jen has inspired me to use the Twin Tuesday meme for my blog.  Therefore, every Tuesday I will endeavour to answer Jen’s twin-related question and blog about it here on Mamma Kerr.
 
Last week, however, I had half-written a Twin Tuesday blog post about Dressing Twins.  Unfortunately, I received some terrible news last Tuesday, which really knocked me for six, and so I was unable to finish the post on time.
 
I have decided to publish the now-finished post today, which means that this week I have TWO Twin Tuesday posts.  You can read the first post here.

Now, here’s the Question of the Week:

Do you find that your twins play with each other more than they do with other children?

This is something which I was worried about when the girls started nursery school, aged three.  I was worried that they would stick together like glue and not make friends with the other kids.  I opted to have them both in the same group, and there was actually another set of twin girls in their group.  (This must have been a little strange for the teacher and the other kids in the group!)

Well, my fears were unfounded, as my girls very quickly made lots of friends.  Yes, they still liked to play with each other (more often than not at the painting corner or drawing tables!) but they soon began to mention a lot of new friends’ names when they came home.

In their second year at nursery, the girls were put in different groups (with my agreement!).  I broke the news to the girls gently, during the summer holidays, and initially it did not go down well.  However, after an awkward start, the girls thrived in their separate groups and made even more friends!
The girls are now in Primary One and in the same class.  They are happy sociable little girls with lots of friends.

Now, when we have their friends over or when the girls are out at a swing park, soft play or birthday party, they often go off in different directions with different groups of friends.

I don’t know whether the fact that my girls are non identical (fraternal) twins, makes them less likely to be too ‘wrapped up’ in each other.

You can read Jennifer’s post here.
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