Not that it's that important, really. But I've often been curious about when twin children are old enough to understand the fact that they're twins, and what that means (in broad strokes, anyway). Just as Alastair and I don't know any other way of parenting except the two-at-a-time sort, our girls don't know any kind of existence but the there-is-another-person-who's-always-around sort. They are peretually aware of each other, looking out for each other, competing with each other.
Meanwhile, most of their "friends" (i.e. the children of our friends) are singletons. But if they find this state of being strange (Where's the person you fight over stuff with all the time? Who's the other person in your room? You mean you get your parents all to yourself?) then they certainly don't give any indication. Now that the girls are more verbal, we've started talking about the fact that they're twins sometimes, usually in reference to other twins they sometimes play with: Ethan and Emmett are twins just like you! Milo and Amelia are twins, just like you! Etc. I wonder if, when they hang out with their singleton pals, they wonder where the "other one" is?
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