My Question of the Day: How can parents encourage individuality among multiple-birth siblings (twins, triplets, quadruplets, etc.), and/or should parents encourage individuality among multiple-birth siblings?

My 2 Cents: Parents should definitely encourage individuality among multiple-birth siblings. Although these children share the same DNA, they each have their own characters, personailities, likes/dislikes, abilities, etc.

Having said that, parents shouldn’t force multiple-birth siblings to differ in ways that they’d like to be the same unless it’s something unhealthy. If multiple-birth siblings want to dress alike, wear their hair alike, that doesn’t seem to bad. However, if one child needs to repeat a grade, it doesn’t seem healthy to have the other sibling(s) repeat the grade, too, just to keep them together. You don’t want to stunt the growth of the other(s) because one sibling needs to be held back.

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Take a few moments to check out the tweets from Twitter on this subject:

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BLKMGK I don’t think that parents have to necessarily encourage individuality, but don’t try to fuse the kids’ personalities together.

_Nitra_ It is good 4 parents 2 encourage all children to find their uniqueness whether they r multiples or single-birth children.

JoshDamage yes parents should support individuality in all their kids especially multi birth kids. u do so by taking interest in that area

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The Week in Review

• The Week in Review: Questions of the Day 06-10 December 2010
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