When Twins are Kids #3 & #4 and Baby #5 Arrives with Greg Parks – Podcast 303
Episode 303 of the Dad’s Guide to Twins Podcast Show Notes Today we continue our father of twins interview series with Greg Parks, father of boy/girl twins. Listen as we explore his twin parenting journey, including: When one twin climbs out of the crib Handling twins with two older children One twin in NICU for 9 days while other twin is home Welcoming another baby into the family after twins Sleeping arrangements for all the kids Baby monitor technology to keep tabs on kids Exponential work when attention divided with twins Never use twins or younger kids as an excuse for not doing something with older kids Finding opportunities to get one on one time with the kids Financial tips for young children Balancing finances as a large family and more… Connect with Greg via email . Podcast Transcript This is transcript auto-generated so please forgive any mistakes. Today, we continue our Father of Twins interview series with another twin dad, a fellow Texan father of five, including boy-girl twins. Share some of the challenges of welcoming twins into the family when you already have a couple of children, plus what happens when a fifth child arrives after the twins. That plus some tips on teaching your children how to handle finances and money at an early age. Welcome to the Dad’s Guide to Twins podcast, the podcast that will help you survive and thrive as a father of twins. Now, here’s your host, the author of the book, The Dad’s Guide to Twins, Joe Rawlinson. Hey everybody, welcome to the podcast. This is Joe Rawlinson. I’m glad that you’re here today. As always, you can find me on the web at dadsguidetotwins.com, where you can listen to all previous podcast episodes and find other resources to help you along your twin parenting journey. If you are still expecting twins, I have a special gift for you today. You can get a free audio book version of my first book for dads called Dad’s Guide to Twins over at freetwinbook.com. Once again, that’s freetwinbook.com. Today, I would like to welcome to the show Father of Twins, Greg Parks. Welcome to the show, Greg. Hey, thanks a lot, Joe. Glad to be here. Greg, how old are your twins right now and what’s something exciting about this age? We have boy, girl, twins, Evan and Ava, and they are going to be turning three March 12th. An exciting thing right now, I think watching the two of them interact, they keep each other so much company and they really keep each other in line. Just last night, our son, so Evan, the boy, twin, has figured out how to climb out of his crib, though it’s lowered all the way to the ground. We took all the bolts out and everything. And this just started last night. And so went back, put him in, he’s pretty upset, put him back in. Well, no joke, we’re listening on the monitor. And after about the fourth or fifth time that I put him back in his crib, I hear him call out to his sister. And his sister tells him, they call each other Wubba. I don’t know where that came from, but she tells him, “Wubba, stay in bed.” And he says, “I want to get out.” And she says, “Wubba, stay in bed. Go night night.” And she was, you know, keeping him in line and telling him what to do. And from that, he decided, “Well, I guess I better stand back because my sister told me to.” And so just watching them communicate and, you know, have almost, almost have like, their own language and their own jokes has been so fun to watch as they interact with each other. That is fun. That’s crazy. That just happened. If you have a unique situation, Greg, because as soon as one of my girls figured out how to climb on the crib, her other sister mimic that exact behavior and it was just chaos. Congrats to your daughter for being the mom in the room and telling everybody to stay put. That’s crazy. Yeah. I think it’s a combination of being a mom. She very much has a motherly instinct with her dolls and of course watching my wife, Andrea, take care of our little one. But it’s a fine line between a motherly in