{"id":2278,"date":"2008-09-22T10:04:45","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T14:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=2278"},"modified":"2008-09-22T10:04:45","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T14:04:45","slug":"my-kids-got-a-raw-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=2278","title":{"rendered":"My kids got a raw deal .."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"I<\/a> I played good tennis this glorious weekend, despite of my tender right wrist hurt while making my little tables. I know .. I know .. complaining shows character flaw and .. but I’ve been making ado with it and hopefully get over it soon. My buddies are pretty sick by now that every time we play, I have use of one part of body, could only play either forehand or backhand.<\/p>\n

What the most masmezing time came on Saturday, was\u00a0not that the four sets William and I won, (that too was great but I shouldn’t take any credit) but I played with Pumpkin afterward.
\nI went home after the morning game, had breakfast and went out again with her. As we were warming up, I noticed she has far better control by the mid court or near the net than before. We could rally for a long time, often 20 strokes or so. After an hour or so, she called it quit. We sat down, had water and then she asked,\"not<\/a>
\n“Have I improved?”
\nIt might just be what it is, that she wanted to know if she has improved from the last time we played.\u00a0 But what immediately creep into my mind was what I told her\u00a0when she first got into it.<\/p>\n

Couple of\u00a0years ago, she just got to know Sharon<\/a> (but before they ever played)\u00a0and\u00a0asked how she measures up to the Ace.\u00a0 Being tactless, I replied in my\u00a0most famous way,<\/p>\n

“She’s much better player ..”<\/p>\n

At the time, she showed nothing\u00a0just took it in.\u00a0 I forgot the moment all together.\u00a0 Till this Saturday.<\/p>\n

Lord, What did I do to my kid, I asked myself silently.\u00a0 I felt sick and wanted to kick myself.\u00a0 Should I answer it with bit more sensitivity?\u00a0 Absolutely.\u00a0 Was I able to answer it with\u00a0pride and encouragement while convey the truth?\u00a0 Well, if I try little harder, I might, 20%\u00a0chance .. ..\u00a0 On the brighter side of the equation – although\u00a0I sometime feel sorry for my kids that they\u00a0got a lousy deal from me .. but nevertheless, I love them very much, and very proud of them – that they’re experiencing the real life, starting right at home.\u00a0 Might not be too bad after all.<\/p>\n

Hey, I got to make myself feel good, right? On the expense of my kids? That’s bad. Parents on both side of Pacific Ocean are busy driving their little ones to somewhere and do something, while Irene is busy with her own thing. Lousy and selfish mom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I played good tennis this glorious weekend, despite of my tender right wrist hurt while making my little tables. I know .. I know .. complaining shows character flaw and .. but I’ve been making ado with it and hopefully get over it soon. My buddies are pretty sick by now that every time we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5,3],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-2278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kronicle","category-saga","category-uncategorized","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}