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Not Quite the Same

Developmental Differences in Twins

By Alexandria Powell

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Elizabeth Lyons agrees. Lyons, the author of Ready or Not ... There We Go! The REAL Experts' Guide to the Toddler Years With Twins (Finn-Phyllis Press, Inc, 2006), has fraternal twin sons, Henry and Jack. While both are thriving now, Henry was diagnosed with sensory processing disorder as a toddler. "There's a wide range of development during the toddler years, and in a set of twins, one child could walk at 12 months and the other at 17 and they would both still be in normal range," says Lyons. "But with Henry, we realized there was a huge discrepancy in every area – not just walking or talking, but everything – between his development and Jack's."

Lyons still advocates caution when making comparisons between twins. Today, Jack and Henry remain quite different. Jack is a natural athlete; Henry isn't. Henry is the artistic, creaive one while Jack still can't color in the lines. "Different kids develop different skills at different times," says Lyons. "If you look for all your children to follow the perfect [example] in everything, you are setting everybody up for disappointment."


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