Twins - Are they the same or different?

A lot of people asked me,"Since Asher and Gwyneth are twins, do they have the same liking or different?" I suppose the other parents of twins would most probably have smiliar answer - besides having the same stimulation and environment, they are quite different in nature, perhaps even more for opposite sex twins.

Their new teacher this year in the Childcare centre, Teacher Michelle, told me that she observed that Asher is able to grasp concepts and learn faster than Gwyneth. She said Gwyn tends to get distracted but would still learn similiar things slightly later than Asher. In fact, that is what we observed at home since infancy.

Asher would speak and learn words earlier, have an almost "once a glance" memory and better attention span. Gwyn, on the other hand, is good with her observation skills and tends to notice things that we (including her brother) would not normally pick up. Both have likings for different colours - Ash loves orange and blue, Gwy loves pink and green; different taste buds - almost contrasting that if I have to cook different food each time, I would have lot of things to prepare. Asher, as a boy, is also more aggressive and loud in nature; whereas Gwyneth is more quiet and keeps her temperament a little better than her brother.

They have some silimiarities, that is both loves to read and sing. Perhaps it may be due to the same stimuli environment, we read and sing to them a lot since they were babies.

I believe twins of the same sex would generally be different in nature too. That is what I observed in the Childcare centre, where coincidentally, they have another two sets of twins - twins boys in N1 and fracternal twin girls in K1. And by the way, Ash and Gwy's teacher this year, Ms Michelle is also one of the other fracternal twins girls! What a twins' centre!