When's there's more twins than your twins.....
How many brothers (and/or sisters) do you have? Such a harmless statement that expects such a simple response. In our case, it’s not that simple. My twins have a set of biological twin siblings who have been adopted by someone else. The other twins are a boy and a girl. It’s natural to want to include all of your siblings when asked how many you have. It’s very unatural to have your therapist explain to your 8 year old son, that for all intensive purposes, the only siblings he should tell people about are the ones that live in the home. That’s not to discredit their biological siblings, but just the mere fact of trying to explain the situation is way too much for an 8 year to need to explain to people. Generally if we are doing something with a group of kids who are not real familiar with our family, but simply know that Ethan, James and Jordan are brothers, one child inevitably asks, “So (Insert twin name here) is your brother BUT Ethan is your brother too?” or my favorite, “