Stories and Advice for Parents of Twins, Triplets and More
Sign up for blog posts and book updates now. Thanks for visiting! One year ago we were an average family. We had three children ages 8, 6, and 2 and we were busy with the average family things like dance lessons, scouts, sports, and homework. I was a busy but happy mom of three kids feeling content with where my…
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When we started working on our second book, Multiples Illuminated: Life with Twins and Triplets, the Toddler to Tween Years, the first thing we did was to work with our talented designer on our book cover. Most authors work on the manuscript first, then the book cover. Because we knew the kind of stories we would be publishing, we had…
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I gave birth to fraternal twins, a boy, and girl, back in 1996. When we learned that our son, Josh, was severely autistic, the joy of having multiples was dashed in a single diagnosis. But I was so overwhelmed in the first few months of our crisis that I didn’t mourn our loss. In those days no one knew much…
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By Pamela Alma Weymouth It strikes me as odd that the federal government has yet to cite the dangers of driving-while-parenting—parenting twins in particular. Common sense, highway accident rates, and brain science have examined the lethalities of drinking and driving, texting while driving, and mobile phone use while driving—but somehow, the ever-more-dangerous hazards of driving while parenting somehow remains an…
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I had this genius idea a month ago. A well-intentioned friend told me about how she’d potty-trained her two boys, now four and six-years-old with this three-day training method. She then proceeded to gift me with her entire vast collection of little plastic toddler potties, including one that sings when you go. “This method works best with children under 28 months…
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I was crossing a parking lot from the grocery store to the natural foods store, grasping one small hand in each of mine—the twins had gotten big enough that they could walk a fair distance on their own and sometimes it was easier to let them walk than hoist the 40-pound stroller in and out of the back of the…
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