A little laugh

A Little Laugh

The Good and Bad News
By Victoria Harper

• If you only want two (three if you have triplets) children, you get it over with all at once.
• Twins are so fascinating that everyone offers to baby-sit them.
• Chasing after multiples will keep you young.
• You can potty train all your children at once and be done with buying nappies.
• Grandparents and friends will sympathise with your situation and buy identical toys and clothes.
• Twins can keep each other company at night.
• Twins are exposed to all childhood diseases at the same time.
• With all the identical pairs of shoes all over the house, even if somebody loses one you can still come up with a matching pair in a hurry.
• Things aren’t really twice as much work.
• Twins will learn co-operation and teamwork from each other.
• Afterwards you’ll need plastic surgery!
• Taking care of twins is so much work that they never do.
• You’ll just look 10 years older while you’re doing it.
• It takes an extra year to potty train them because once the second twin gets the idea, his co-twin will be jealous of your praising his sibling and regress.
• Your twins will fight over anything anyway. The only thing that makes an article attractive is the fact that one’s cotwin is eating, wearing or holding it.
• They wake each other up.
• They come down with everything at least a week apart.
• It’s either a pair of two lefts or two rights.
• They are just twice as expensive and take twice as long to take care of.
• They’ll team up against you ...