for parents of twins & multiples
Welcoming members to the family brings with it a whole set of challenges, and requires a certain amount of compromise. The chances are that if you live anywhere near London, extra space in your home is almost unheard of. For many the option of moving into a bigger home is out of the question, and […]
Arts and crafts is an incredibly useful activity for kids to engage with because it helps them to develop their creativity whilst urging them to carry out a more critical thinking point of view through the act of creating and designing. According to the National Society for Education in Art & Design, by giving your […]
Small children discover the world around them by using their senses. They touch, squeeze, smell, taste and look. Texture, colour, even the noise something makes as fingers are run over it – it all provides a motivation for play, and through that play, learning. Water and sand in particular provide countless opportunities for tactile, imaginative […]
Children are quite hands on with new things, this is how they learn. Taking part in ‘messy play’ is just another aspect of a fun, healthy and productive childhood. When a child gets ‘messy’ it doesn’t necessarily mean that they are rolling about in the dirt or splashing around in muddy puddles, it simply refers […]
Twin Zygosity DNA testing from International Biosciences is the best method to find out if twins are identical or non-identical. IBDNA uses a simple mouth swab from each twin which is then sent to our laboratory for processing. Monozygotic twins, or Identical twins, have precisely the same genetic profile and non-identical twins (dizygotic) have different […]
As any parent knows, having just one child can be one of life’s biggest challenges, but if you have been blessed with twins, you have got twice as much to think about, from wardrobes to sleeping habits. Your twins are used to sharing everything from the womb onwards, so it may seem like a great […]
The modern mother has so much on her plate nowadays. While motherhood in days of yore was something which more or less confined us to our homes, we’re now expected to be out and about on the town and even holding down a job. What’s more, with the increasing amount of celebrities taking selfies about […]