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Multiples Aged 7 to 12: The Middle Years - Special Report |
A TWINS™ Magazine Special Report
Compiled by the Editors of TWINS™ Magazine Published by TWINS™ Magazine
Twins, triplets and higher order multiples entering their middle years of childhood bring many new challenges to parents overseeing their emotional and intellectual growth. How does a parent assist their twins' self-confidence? How is individuality encouraged among twins? What behavior is acceptable? What behavior is unacceptable - and how does a parent handle lies, "bad" language and a lack of manners?
This special report contains 48 articles on parenting during the middle years from the pages of TWINS™ Magazine. Educators, therapists and social workers, as well as parents who have successfully guided their twins to adulthood provide helpful advice and real-life stories.
Also included is valuable information about the discipline of twins, encouraging motivation, improving personal hygiene, handling twin birthdays, sexual curiosity, and more.
84 pages, softbound 8-3/8 x 11 x 1/4" |
Chapter Index:
Unsealing Their Lips Allowances: To Give or Not to Give Satisfying Sexual Curiosity When Twins are Teased for Being Twins Putting "No" In Their Lives What Not to Say to Your Multiples Can We Protect Too Much? Can They Be Their Own Sensors? The Parent Booster Club! The Messages of the Media Can We Have a Dog/Cat/Bunny Pleeeeeeeese? Should Twins Be Given Gifts to Share? Establishing Chore Routines Promoting Good Restaurant Manners Middle-Years Child Questionnaire Results Strong Medicine for the Pain of Divorce Helping Prepare "Latchkey Kids" So Happy Together! A Self-Confidence Checkup Making My Birthday Extra Special Twins Don't Have to Be Alike! Muddling Through the Moody River Getting Comfortable With Their Sexuality "If I Have to Tell You One More Time" ... Why Didn't You Tell Someone? Why Show-Offs Need the Spotlight "Why Aren't You More Like Your Twin?" Why Children Lie Cleaning Up "Bad" Language Do Your Multiples Do What You Ask? Is it Normal for Twins to Fight? "What Nice Manners You Have!" Why Reality-Based Discipline Works What Every Child Needs to Know: How to Get Help Learning Caution Without Fear What Information Should Your Babysitter Have? The Necessity of Bicycle Helmets Can Courage be Safely Taught? Fighting Fat Myths! Little Mouths ... Big Adjustments? Toward Independence in Personal Hygiene Motivating the Unmotivated Linking Learning and Social Disabilities Surviving a Common Classroom Cracking the Middle School Combination Understanding Cultural Diversity Should Twins Help Each Other With Their Homework? To Reward or Not to Reward |
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