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TwinWatch News: Twins in anorexia research study; twin hockey stars; triplet gardeners

Research using twins and other multiples contributes much to the understanding of human behavior. (You can read my interview with a University of Southern California twin researcher here on BeTwinned.com.) This news story gives an example of a pair of twins who are participating in a National Institutes of Health study about eating disorders and genetics. Both twins suffer from anorexia.

I read stories all the time about twins and triplets excelling in athletics. Here’s one about 26-year-old twin hockey-playing brothers Daniel and Henrik Sedin. They play for the Vancouver Canucks.

I absolutely love this story about gardening triplets. At the end of the article, the triplets’ mother gives a series of tips about getting kids interested in gardening.

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Offsite links

Famous Twins & Multiples

  • HammTwins.com
    The website of American twin gymnasts Morgan and Paul Hamm.

Fun with Twins & Multiples

  • Twins Days
    Twins Days is an annual festival in Twinsburg, Ohio. Learn all about it on this website.
  • Twin Connections
    You can share your twin story and read others’ twin stories at Twin Connections, the site for “celebrating the mysterious bond between twins.”

Online Resources

  • Twinsight
    Website for Eileen Pearlman, Ph.D., author of Raising Twins: What Parents Want to Know (And What Twins Want to Tell Them).
  • The Center for the Study of Multiple Birth
    Twins Donald and Louis Keith created The Center “to stimulate and foster medical and social research in the area of multiple birth, and to help parents with the special problems they and their offspring may encounter.”
  • The Triplet Connection
    From packets of information for expectant parents to plenty of “Timely Topics,” this site is a wealth of information for parents of triplets and higher-order multiples.
  • The BlogHer Ad Network
    If you’re looking for parenting resources in general, you won’t find a more diverse, intelligent, funny source of the best parenting tips than the blogs in this BlogHer ad network. Scroll down the page for links to all the blogs. Or, if you’re not in the mood to surf too much, you can always check out the “More from BlogHer” link inside the advertisements on the right hand side of all the BeTwinned pages.

Twin Research & Twin Registers

Use the comments feature below to suggest additional links for this resource page.

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Parenting resources

This is the beginning of what will hopefully become a rich list of resources about parenting twins and multiples. Please either leave a comment below or send additional suggestions to Diana@BeTwinned.com.

**Dr. Laura Baker, twin researcher with the Southern California Twin Project at the University of Southern California, recommends these “wonderful books for understanding twins from both a psychological point of view and a practical point of view in terms of child rearing tips and things that work:”

Raising Twins: What Parents Want to Know (And What Twins Want to Tell Them) by Eileen M. Pearlman, Jill Alison Ganon

Having Twins And More : A Parent’s Guide to Multiple Pregnancy, Birth, and Early Childhood by Elizabeth Noble

The Art of Parenting Twins : The Unique Joys and Challenges of Raising Twins and Other Multiples by Patricia Malmstrom, Janet Poland

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Information about twin research and twin registers

This is the beginning of a resource page on twin research. Additionally, the homepage of this blog has a number of helpful links on twin research and twin registers. If you have suggestions for this resource list, please leave a comment below or send information to Diana@BeTwinned.com, and I’ll update either this list or the links list.

**Dr. Laura Baker of the Southern California Twin Project at the University of Southern California said that there is an abundance of material on the Internet and in professional publications about twin research and registers. The following are names of just two professional journals that might be of interest to twins and their parents.

The International Society for Twin Studies publishes the journal Twin Research and Human Genetics – it includes both twin research and research about twins.

The Behavior Genetics Association publishes the journal Behavior Genetics.

Related BeTwinned article: Research on twins has long yielded valuable insight into nature/nurture question.