Raising Twins: What Parents Want to Know (and What Twins Want to Tell Them)

Raising Twins guides you through the physical, emotional, and cognitive developmental differences and challenges specific to twins. Straightforward and reassuring, this book addresses the key issues that impact twins from babyhood all the way through adolescence:

• Sharing and comparisons

• Competition and rivalry

• The "secret language" of twins

• The good twin/bad twin myth

• Teen-specific issues like dating and applying for college

• And much more including lively, candid discussions with twins and their parents

Eileen M. Pearlman, Ph.D., an identical twin, is a licensed marriage, family, and child therapist who also teaches and lectures nationally and internationally on multiple birth issues. She is the director of Twinsight, which provides counseling, workshops, and seminars to multiples and their families, and lives in Los Angeles.

Jill Alison Ganon is a writer and editor residing in Los Angeles.