Harvey Araton
@harveyaraton.bsky.social
Journalist/author/adjunct professor and, like Federer and Nadal, retiring tennis player after injury.
It’s not going away but for kids of a certain age, it’s crucial that expectations leading to pressure leading to burnout be tempered by parents, etc. If children at 8 or 9 believe they are playing for some distant and statistically improbable destination, they are playing for the wrong reasons.
December 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
It’s not going away but for kids of a certain age, it’s crucial that expectations leading to pressure leading to burnout be tempered by parents, etc. If children at 8 or 9 believe they are playing for some distant and statistically improbable destination, they are playing for the wrong reasons.