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Harried Holidays
Making It Through the Season With Multiples
By Jenn Director Knudsen
Taking your twins along for a holiday shopping excursion? "God help you!" says Karen Hill, laughing, a 30-year-old mom to 3 1/2-year-old fraternal twin girls.
She qualifies that statement, however, by offering, "It can be fun and joyful if done in small bursts."
The holidays, filled with family traditions, are upon us again. But with multiples in tow, the holidays can be traditionally tough. Shopping with and for and traveling with more than one child the same age has its unique challenges. Below, experts and parents of twins and triplets discuss some of the problems and offer tips on how best to sail through this difficult season.
Hill says shopping with her twin girls can not only be embarrassing, but dangerous, too, if, for example, one child melts down in a store or parking lot and tries to run away. "With one child who loses it, you can pick [her] up and walk out," she says. But with two children the same age, it's not quite that easy.
William Laut, 45, a stay-at-home dad of 5-year-old triplets – two boys and a girl – says if he decides to take his group shopping, he gives them a pep talk first. "I get down on my knees right in front of them," says Laut of Hudson, Ohio. Then he tells his children the behavior he expects of them. "And you hold them to it," he adds; if they misbehave, he piles them back into the minivan and returns home.
Laut, co-author of Raising Multiple Birth Children: A Parent's Survival Guide
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