Friday, March 14, 2008
Congratulations, You're Having Twins (post for Week 6)
Analyzing and doing research on different children made me think about twins and their differences. Luckily, my mom's friend from high school is the proud mother of twins so I was able to ask her some questions. Right from the beginning, there were interesting things to talk about. She was 39 at the time, first off. Secondly, both twins were born at 6 1/2 pounds which is VERY unusual. The son came out first and the daughter followed about 15 minutes later. As we fast-forward to them now at 14 years old, things have changed. The daughter is an A student while the son a C student. And a big difference, especially at this stage of puberty, the daughter is about 5'1 and 130 pounds, while the son is around 4'11 and 86 pounds. It has gotten to the point where he isn't being taken on sports teams anymore because of his height, and sports is everything to him. He's only 14 and he's still got plenty of years left to grow, but being shorter may very well have to do with the fact that he's a twin. Often you'll hear stories of one twin taking in all the nutrition and food and such from the mother, but since both were born so incredibly healthy, how could that be? Even more interesting, they used to have their own little language with each other. How they used to chatter away and keep saying "nini" to talk. We all talked in gibberish when we were babies, but as twins there's always some sort of connection. Only they could understand each other. It was a language made for them created by them. I mean at some point don't we ALL create our own little language when learning to talk? We don't know all the words yet or how to say them, so our mind creates its own words and its own sounds. To say I wanted water, I probably couldve said "ah bleebleee" or something. And someone else could've said "chooshuska" or whatever. But the twins sort of combined together into one mind. It's weird. You always hear about how sometimes when one twin dies, the other twin feels incomplete or empty inside. I wonder if in some weird way, their minds are somehow linked together.
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Twins always have that sort of connection because they are in the wimb for nine months sharing everything their mother provides. Children make their own language to communicate with eachother, until they can speak the languages they are being taught. Twins are mainly on the same wavelength all the time because of their connection in the womb. It could be that they spent so much time together already before they were born. I'm not sure exactly, because I haven't done the research but these are my opinions on this question you asked.
first off, poor boy! i'm sure that he will be fine, but it has to be hard to feel like you cannot partake in the things you love because of height or some other physical attribute.
i think it would be interesting to see if two babies of the same age but from different mothers could establish their own language if they lived together. is this ability to communicate in a made-up language only possible if the kids shared the same womb? that is what amanda is suggesting by her comment, but i am not sure if that is true. it would be an interesting experiment to help to understand the formation of language itself, and could also reinforce ideas introduced by chomsky.
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