Having multiple children is a daily, delightful refutation of the blank slate hypothesis. They are so different.
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Hardcore blank-slaters must either never spend time around children, or view them through rigidly ideological eyes.
Recently I asked a mother of (fraternal) twins what they had in common. She thought for a long time, then said "nothing."
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I'm one of those twins. Also, reminds me of the sumptuous Kahlil Gibran on children: http://www.katsandogz.com/onchildren.html
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good on her. Ours share a birthdate, but otherwise couldn't be more different. Recognizing "nothing in common" takes a strong parent.
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First kid drank any milk, hot or cold. We thought, "we have done something right". Then the younger one required it at an exact temp.
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wouldn't twins having nothing in common kind of prove that the experience > dna?
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even monozygotic ("identical") twins can have very different personalities.
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Of course this is false; in a precise genetic sense, those kids have as much in common as any two distinct persons can. But still...
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This is what makes the whole thing so subtle. It would be simpler if siblings were assigned their traits randomly and arbitrarily.
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my twin boys are 8 yrs. 1st month of life, same incubator, then shared bath, bedroom, couch, backyard. They are completely different.
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so many times we've been asked if our boy (blonde)/girl (brunette) twins were identical... "Yes, except that one has a penis".
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