We jut ran a charming article on Babble by Katie Allison Granju about how, as the mother of teenagers, she's getting the chance to raise another child, having just given birth to a new baby. She calls it a "parenting do-over."

Not surprisingly, I find my three older offspring to be the most special and appealing children I've ever met, and others who know them agree; these are great kids. But if I am honest, I have to admit there are some things I wish I had done differently in my earliest years of raising them. That's because, like most mothers I know, I question my own parenting choices regularly. Unlike many other mothers, however, I will now get the chance to try things another way with this brand new baby.

Specifically, she says, she intends to stay married to this baby's father and to be stricter about grades and housework.Our favorite part of the essay is her description of trying to give birth while being pestered on her cell phone by her sixteen-year-old's requests that he be allowed to go to a party.

You can read the story here, and weigh in in comments: for those of you with grown kids, what would you do differently if you got a second chance?