New Children’s Book Shows How Twins Have Their Own Identities
Marissa Bader has been writing and editing pieces on parenting for several years, but her latest writing covers a topic that hits very close to home: her three children, and in particular, her 6-year-old twin daughters.
“I was working on an article last year about the importance of treating your kids like individuals,” she said. “Not just twins, but all siblings. Kids are so different from one another but often, even with non-twin siblings, we lump them together.”
Bader wrote the illustrated book The Only Me, the story of twin sisters Paige and Stella, and Stella’s quest to be an individual, not to always be lumped together with her twin.
She said the words flowed quickly, but even then, she wasn’t sure what to do with what she had started.
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