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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If no improvement after months of tutoring, I would have the kid stop and work with the test scores they have.  Three attempts is plenty.

Curious why it is [b]not ok in family dynamics [/b]for one kid to be better at school and other to be better in standardized tests?  Doesn’t the standardized test kid get to be better at something?[/quote]

It doesn't come from us.  The twins compare themselves with everything. The amount of money they made last summer, the miles they drove when getting their drivers' licenses, the ice cream sandwiches they ate last week...

Twins are an exceedingly interesting dynamic.  Their entire world (teachers, friends, neighbors, their pediatrician) compares them to each other constantly.  As parents you fight against this from the minute they're born when the nurses make comments on who is longer and who weighs more.  The kids internalize this when it's all they hear for years. As parents you spend their entire lives trying to make people see them as individuals.

It's entirely different with our other kids (we have 2 more).  They don't compare things to each other or their siblings.  [/quote]

Just wanted to chime in as a mother of twins that I'm right there with you.  The constant comparison can be really difficult for twins.[/quote]

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