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Baby's Temperament

Personality Styles in Infants

By Laura Cone

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Whether you have twins yourself or extended family members or friends with twins, it's important to respect their individual temperaments. Experts say twins do not usually have the same temperaments, even if they are identical in terms of appearance.

Erica Lai of Spanish Fork, Utah, says she has noticed her fraternal twin boys, Seth and Ethan, did not inherit their easy-going temperament from her. "I get stressed out and am a little bit of a perfectionist," Lai says, adding her husband, Douglas, is more laid back. "They are pretty good-natured babies. They are pretty happy most of the time."

Lai says she thinks she will notice more of a difference between the twin boys as they grow older. At the moment, her boys seem easygoing as opposed to slow to warm up or difficult.

"They are just starting to get a little shy," Lai says. "It does not take them much to open up to other people. One is definitely more active. He is the one who crawled first, and is walking first and doing the major milestones first. Maybe he will be more athletic. The other one does more of the fine-motor skills, like clapping his hands first."

This past summer, Lai and her husband took the twins to Hong Kong, where they had to adjust to a 12-hour time difference. "They adjusted pretty well to the time zone difference," she says, adding the twins did not mind being held by the flight attendants on the plane. "They did not eat very well for a few days from the traveling, but they were not shy about new places."

While some twins are easygoing like Lai's twins, others find it difficult to adapt to new situations or get used to routines.

Generally, experts say it's best to speak to each twin individually and take time one-on-one to encourage their individuality and uniqueness.

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