Twins should be treated as individuals

It’s important to treat twins as individuals and not as a set,writes Helen O’Callaghan.

ALL children must learn to become independent of parents, but twins also have to separate and individuate from each other.

Latest figures show increasing numbers are parenting twins. Statistics published in October record 1,307 sets of twins born in Ireland in 2011 — up from 1,240 in 2010.