I recently read research that indicated that there are significant delays both in language and motor skills in twins. It doesn’t stop there; the same is supposedly true for siblings who are close together in age. Siblings who are close in age (including twins), are on average, six to eight months behind their singleton counterparts. According to the research, my children are doomed: all two years apart, except of course for the twins who are only minutes apart. They are by birth order destined to be behind those kids whose parents had the insight to only have one or two … Continue reading →