Ashe hit the proverbial nail on the head here. Look at your child's tennis as a life-long work in progress. While it's natural to want your kids to succeed in everything they do, as far as tennis is concerned, stress hard work and improvement, not results. Teach your kids to compete within themselves, to try to be the best they can be and this will carry over into the other, more significant facets of their lives. Of course, if they show the interest and potential, you should support them and allow them to pursue the game to their highest capability.
Tennis is a wonderful game which can have a profound impact on one's life.
It certainly did on mine. Obviously at that point tennis wasn't for me. A year or so later I was ready to give it a shot, and tennis has been an important part of my life ever since. Everyday on thousands of tennis courts around the globe a countless number of senior citizens take the court, with their adult children, or even their grandchildren, hit a few balls and have the time of their lives. These people, many who have been playing, and enjoying tennis, for sixty, seventy years, have accepted the gift of tennis and treasured it throughout their lives.