Update On The Development Of My Twin Daughters

The girls are almost three and a half years old now and so I thought I’d give you all a quick update on their development and how they are changing.

We took them out of nursery and started them in infant’s school this March and what a difference we have seen in just a month and a half.

We were a bit unsure at first and one of the reasons we had chosen to keep them in nursery a little longer although they should have started infants last September was because they had been born a month premature.

Although their birth date made them eligible for nursery last September if they had been born on their natural birth date they wouldn’t have entered until the following school year which would be this September.

Also in Spanish school they won’t accept them until they are fully out of nappies and can go to the bathroom on their own without any help to dress themselves afterwards anyway.

The final deciding factor to move them was that they are quite intelligent and we felt they had out grown the nursery and were starting to get bored.

It’s school policy here in Spain that twins are always placed in separate classes which we didn’t like at first but now we can see the reasons and the benefits. (They can be a bit of a handful for one person when they are together and will always stick together and gang up on you when they want to get their own way!)

By separating them in school they have not only developed their own characters and personalities, they have their own circle of friends and can quite happily function individually without always needing to be within sight of one another.

Another very interesting part of their development is related to the fact that ever since they where born, so that we both got a chance to sleep a little at night I have always looked after Rebeca when she wakes up and Marie has always looked after Laura not realising at the time what a massive influence it was having on their characters.

They way they have bonded to the individual parent and the way they react to different situations is uncanny, but that’s a whole different story that I would like to keep for another day...............

I would love to hear about your own personal and funny experiences bringing up your twins, please forward them to me at: tapasandtantrums@gmail.com quoting "Raising twins" in the subject line and I'll feature them here over the forth coming weeks.

Feel free to leave any comments below, all input and feedback is much appreciated.

See you next week.