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Overview of Raising Twins
  • Parenting twins is twice the challenge, twice as demanding, twice as exhausting, and twice the joy as well.
  • It is very expensive.
  • It will change your life physically and mentally.
  • You’ll be sleep deprived
  • It is very rewarding and worth all the effort you’ll put in.


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Parenting Multiples http://kidshealth.org/parent/positive/family/parenting_multiples.html
  • Highly scholarly people created and reviewed the articles, features, and media support provided on this site.
  • The content of the article is understandable, reliable, practical, objectives, clear and relevant to my topic.
  • This site offers an excellent source of information to educate parents with practical knowledge on parenting multiples.


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Twins: Taking Care of Two
http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/about.html
  • A familydoctor.org editorial staff operated by the American Academy of Family Physicians wrote and reviewed the article.
  • This site provide health information for the whole family with a highly credible, educational, and trustworthy.
  • This site provides health information for the whole family.
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About: Parenting of Multiples
Top 10 Survival Strategies: The First Few Months with Twins/Multiples
http://multiples.about.com/od/twinfants/tp/survivaltips.htm
  • This page/article is written by Pamela Prindle Fierro a mother of identical twin girls in 1995 and is the author of two books “Everything Twins, Triplets and More” (2005) and “Praying Through Pregnancy” (2006) graduated with a degree of Communications from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.


  • High level of knowledge/passion for the topic, appropriate credentials, keen understanding of the Web “experience”, and Commitment to creating informative, actionable features are the qualification requirements for the author/writer of this site.
  • Even though this site is a commercial site, but it is credible, useful, and reliable information.


  • Parents can trust that all information provided on this page is accurate and trustworthy. The purpose of this site is to provide advice and information that are practical and trustworthy.


  • The information either popular or scholarly in nature; it is an informative tips/advice in nature.


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Helpful Tips
  • When searching information on the internet, it is very important to look for a header or footer showing some kind of affiliation, URL, and the domain such as .edu, .com, .ac, .uk, .org, .net, .mil, and etc.


  • Stay away from the sites that are biases or mainly commercial.


  • Utilize the resources that have been evaluated, monitored, edited, regulated, or approved such as The Librarian Index to the Internet, the Databases, Infopeople.org, infomine.com, Ask.com, and etc.


  • Read the About Us, Editorial Policy, Companies or Organizations that they affiliate with and the overview of the site will tell you whether the site is credible or not.




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Conclusion
  • Internet is a very powerful resource center consisting of a vast amount of unlimited information for users to write, publish, and access on anything.


  • Everything you read or see isn’t always legitimate, accurate, reliable, or trustworthy.


  • Finding information is easy, but knowing how to evaluate and utilize the information can be quite a challenge.


  • Knowing how to evaluate and find excellent resources is time essential.


  • When evaluating a web site, users need to keep this four factors in mind: credibility, accuracy, reasonableness, and support.



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Citations
  • “Parenting Multiples.” KidsHealth for Parents. July 2005. 20 April 2007 <http://kidshealth.org/parent/positive/family/parenting_multiples.html>


  • “Twins: Taking Care of Two.” American Academy of Family Physicians. July  2005. 20 April 20007 <http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/about.html>


  • Pamela Prindle Fierro. “Top 10 Survival Strategies: The First Few Months with Twins/Multiples.” About.com. 20 April 2007
    • <http://multiples.about.com/od/twinfants/tp/survivaltips.htm>