Category: Parent’s Corner
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Quiz: What’s Your Tennis Parent Style?
Quick, honest question: do you know what kind of tennis parent you are on the sideline? Not the parent you mean to be — the parent your kid actually experiences. Our free 8-question Tennis Parent Style Quiz identifies your support style and gives you sideline guidance tailored to it. Because in junior tennis, the parent…
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How to Motivate Your Kid in Tennis (What Most Parents Get Wrong)
Here’s an uncomfortable truth about junior tennis: most parents don’t motivate their kids at all. They either pressure them (“you should have won that”) or they do nothing and hope the kid magically stays hungry. Neither one works. Motivation is a skill — and as the tennis parent, it’s your job. The coach teaches the…
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7 Signs Your Junior Is Burning Out (and What to Do Before They Quit)
There was a season when the car ride to practice got quiet. Not the good quiet — the heavy kind. My kid stared out the window, and I told myself it was just a phase, just tiredness, just a rough patch. It wasn’t. It was burnout, and I almost missed it because I was too…
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Be the Wall: Why Calm, Loving Parents Raise Tennis Players Who Last
Here’s the single most important thing on this entire site, and it’s not about topspin or UTR or sleep cycles. Your kid has to love this. Not tolerate it. Not endure it for you. Love it. Everything else — the training, the tournaments, the 6 AM practices — runs on that love like an engine…
