For twins specifically, have them checked for congenital muscular torticollis. Ours suffered from that and we only caught it due to an observant mother at a playground. It’s easily correctable if caught young.
Raised three kids, each had a different personality, learning style, needs, strengths, interests.
Suggest you observe your kids and figure out what works for each of them. One size does not fit all.
For us, co-sleeping worked well.
We tried toilet training one kid too early. Pointless stress. Six months later they had no problems.
We let our kids have computers, tablets and phones early, but confiscated them each night to encourage sufficient sleep. One kid borrowed a hand-me-down Gameboy from a friend to get around this. Only caught them because it showed up on our WiFi.
IMO screen time limiting apps do not work well. Kids are creative at circumventing them and are happy to play whatever games are available to them. Confiscation works well.
We bought them quality devices and quality cases. They only broke a couple screens over the years. “Find my device” was very helpful.
Beats headphones absolutely suck for reliability.
Only one tech-related regret so far: in the first year of high school we accidentally let one child play too many computer games, which tanked their grades for a semester, which messed up their chances of attending our over-subscribed state university system (which admits almost solely based on unweighted high school GPA.) They had to attend a much more expensive, somewhat lower ranked, out-of-state school. They did well there, but it was an expensive mistake.
Raised three kids, each had a different personality, learning style, needs, strengths, interests.
Suggest you observe your kids and figure out what works for each of them. One size does not fit all.
For us, co-sleeping worked well.
We tried toilet training one kid too early. Pointless stress. Six months later they had no problems.
We let our kids have computers, tablets and phones early, but confiscated them each night to encourage sufficient sleep. One kid borrowed a hand-me-down Gameboy from a friend to get around this. Only caught them because it showed up on our WiFi.
IMO screen time limiting apps do not work well. Kids are creative at circumventing them and are happy to play whatever games are available to them. Confiscation works well.
We bought them quality devices and quality cases. They only broke a couple screens over the years. “Find my device” was very helpful.
Beats headphones absolutely suck for reliability.
Only one tech-related regret so far: in the first year of high school we accidentally let one child play too many computer games, which tanked their grades for a semester, which messed up their chances of attending our over-subscribed state university system (which admits almost solely based on unweighted high school GPA.) They had to attend a much more expensive, somewhat lower ranked, out-of-state school. They did well there, but it was an expensive mistake.