It’s been a long break from playing tennis matches, although N has been lucky to play quite a bit over the summer at the tennis club. Our club have never done anything for the juniors in the past. We have a strange situation; we no longer train at the club but at a local school,…
A new love of football: finding football fun
For most boys, football is the first sport they experience. Whether it’s with parents playing in the garden, older siblings, or once they start school playing in PE. But N has never been a fan. He’s even gone so far as to say he hated it. But it seems he’s got a (kind of) new…
What kids playing tennis taught us (ie sporting benefits for kids)
As we are coming into the last couple of months of the summer league season for N’s tennis, I thought I’d share what he’s we’ve learnt in his year of playing matches. It’s been a year of ups and downs in terms of wins and losses as you’d expect. But there have been so many…
A first eye hospital visit
We all hope are children will stay healthy and fit, and most of us are lucky that that is the case. But when an injury or accident happens it always seems worse when it’s a child. I am usually a pretty calm person in these moments, after all N has had a lot of bumps…
Do children really need extracurricular activities?
Children’s activities are always in the media. Whether there’s research saying that children need time out and time to be bored from all the activities. Or that parents are overwhelmed from being taxi drivers and logistics managers moving their children from place to place. I’m sure there are children and parents who need to take…
