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The Terrible Twos Times Two
10 Secrets to Surviving the Second Year With Twins
By Elizabeth Lyons
On the day your twins turn 1 year old – possibly even at the stroke of midnight – you will fall back on your bed and breathe a huge sigh of relief. After all, no year could be as challenging as the first, right? Right. That's the good news. Some additional news: The second year is going to be an "interesting" one. However, you're going to make it. Here are 10 products and mind-sets that will guarantee your success.
Choosing to maintain very low expectations might seem negative at first. If so, try thinking of it this way: This approach is not pessimistic, it's realistic. If you don't have a master plan in mind for the way things will go, you significantly reduce the potential for being disappointed. An experience that might otherwise have been viewed as horrendous might be seen as "fascinating." A trip to the grocery store during which the kids were not in the most wonderful moods might be viewed as a success simply because you were able to keep some semblance of peace until everything on your list had been purchased.
Heed the advice of Emmet Fox: "Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you ... If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out..."