As the old saying goes, “If at first you don’t succeed, then try and try again”. That’s why, in any playground across Australia, you can hear parents lamenting, “When we have our next baby I swear I won’t be doing THAT again”.

We call it the “parenting do-over” – when you get a golden opportunity for a second shot at righting any choice you (often unknowingly) made when you became a parent for the first time.

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