Vocal Voices

In one of my Thursday classes are a set of 6 year old twin girls, Christina and Lucia.

They are just the cutest little moppets ever!

Christina is by far the most outgoing, talkative and full of questions whereas Lucia is so quiet.

They always sit side by side and Christina will be forever 'checking up' on what Lucia is writing and yesterday Lucia was struggling a little (I think she was tired) so Christina (who didn't realise I'd noticed ) swapped her already completed work sheet and then finished Lucia's for her.

At the end of a class I'll hand out little 'well done', 'good try', etc stickers and it just made me laugh the way Christina looked all proud of Lucia as Lucia was awarded her sticker.

It reminded me of when my twins were about 10 and they had gone on a two night musical thing with their school.
They had been allocated different sleeping dormitories and Jacob was told the next morning that his brother (Conor) had been crying at bed time.

Jacob took it upon himself to go to one of the helpers there and ask if they would be allowed to sleep in the same room together that night and luckily was told yes.
No tears from Conor that night.

The boys never told me about this until they were about 18 and of course, me being me, got a bit choked at the thought of them being upset, even all these years later.

When I asked why they'd never mentioned it their reply was..'because we knew you'd get upset!'

Gosh what a random post this is!!

Cute, both stories

At the school I worked in the head had a policy of always splitting twins into separate classes. What are your thoughts on that?

miasmum wrote:At the school I worked in the head had a policy of always splitting twins into separate classes. What are your thoughts on that?

I don't see the sense in doing that.

Her feeling was they become to reliant on each other and don't make separate friends

I have no feelings either way, I have no experience of twins

miasmum wrote:Her feeling was they become to reliant on each other and don't make separate friends

I have no feelings either way, I have no experience of twins

Mine were never separated at school and have never been reliant on each other..but have always enjoyed an incredible closeness which has been even more evident in the last few years.

They had separate friends when they were younger but since living in Spain, and particularly since their late teens they both hang about with so many male and female friends that they're all one big happy group.

Of course, being a twin doesn't automatically mean you have to get on with each other but (in my opinion and I am biased ) it must be lovely to have a ready made buddy and just have that connection that being a twin can bring.

That is fair enough Ally, as I said I have no experience. She just felt that they needed to be separated and she always told parents that when they came for a look round so they were under no illusions.

miasmum wrote:That is fair enough Ally, as I said I have no experience. She just felt that they needed to be separated and she always told parents that when they came for a look round so they were under no illusions.

I've just realised I didn't actually answer your original question Shell.

I wouldn't split twins into separate classes unless it was for their own benefit or had been asked to by the parents..but everyone is different.