As parents we take liberties with our newly arrived bundles of joy. Lumbering them with names and spellings of names that are sometimes a burden, tying them to cultural and religious rituals, putting their name down for independent schools, the Melbourne Cricket Club, picking their footy team. The list goes on.

I didn’t get around to the religious sacraments, or the private schools and I failed to submit the signed MCC nomination form for the eldest, who could have been a restricted member by now.

But when it came to that other religion, I took it for granted my kids would share........

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