So.. David is obsessed with tennis. Really, truly obsessed! He went to a camp at T-Bar (a local tennis club) this summer (which he begged to go to and I finally gave in around the end of the summer because it was crazy expensive and.....despite it being 108 degrees outside the first week he went, he played all day the entire week and loved it). So, now we are members at said tennis club, he has a coach and is going 4 days a week to practice. It works great to have something he loves so much because he will get his homework done in no time and is amazingly happy to do chores in order to earn more tennis time. I am not sure if this is what good parenting looks like, but it is what we got...
Despite having half my genetic make-up, the kid is an amazing athlete. He has always been pretty good at most sports, but I have never seen him love something like tennis. He watched the entire US open, he knows all the players, he has all these friends at the tennis club and idolizes the coaches. I think I was sold mainly by his coach - Coach Lori. She is just awesome and really seems to get through to him in a way that we can't. He just got registered to play in tournaments, so more to come on his budding tennis career.
