Wonder twin powers activate

Sometimes, identifying something and actually giving it a name can kind of take the power out of it.

Or, I suppose, it just gives you something to call it.

I now have something to call the twins' behavior at times: TES. 

Sounds like a form of lock jaw, doesn't it? No, that's what I suffer experiencing it.

It's actually Twin Escalation Syndrome.

Yes, it's real. I looked it up. And anything with the word "syndrome" in the title sounds official enough to me. 

It's when one twin or multiple or just a kid really close in age to another kid acts up simply because the other twin or multiple or kid really close in age acted up. 

Because if one twin gets scolded, the other twin apparently feels the need to be scolded too. And often, just to ensure that scolding, the second twin will build on the behavior.

Think it's kind of touching in a way, you know, that they need to be so connected to one another?

Well, it's NOT. At least not when you're dealing with two sets of twins, which kind of makes it double the Twin Escalation Syndrome, or would that be quadruple, or Twin Escalation Escalation Syndrome or Twin Escalation Syndrome Times Two or Times Four or... OK, I'll stop.

Let's say one twin is refusing to get out of the bathtub. You ask the kid to get out of the tub. The kid giggles. Other twin sees this, giggles too.

You tell the kid to get out of the tub. The kid scoots to the far corner of the tub, giggles some more. Her sister scoots next to her, giggles even louder.

You reach for one kid. She dives down in the water. Her sister follows.

You reach even further for the kid. The two sisters now wrap each other's wet, slippery arms around each other as tightly as possible making it difficult for you to grasp either one. They're both hysterically laughing by now.

The more you tell them to get out of the tub, the bolder they seem to get, empowered by one another. "Wonder twin powers, activate. Form of mom's migraine!"