Roger Federer: My parents gave me the space I needed. Now with my kids...
Roger Federer is learning more and more every day about being a parent. The Swiss player likes to compare his behavior as a parent to that of his father Robert and mother Lynette when Roger was a child. "They let me live and gave me the space I required and needed to grow," Federer told Tennis Channel on his parents. "And, I see that now with my daughters as well, they are powerful characters, and my wife is quite stubborn."
He also said, "I was very much testing the boundaries and limits of my parents and I see that with my kids now, they are doing that too so you can either clamp down on them or you can give them that room they need to, yet as long as they know the boundaries is okay and I felt like they had the good balance. I think being polite comes from growing up in Switzerland and the understanding that it's normal to have that, to respect everyone, to be polite to especially the elders. Like it's in a tram if somebody is standing and you are the young kid you are standing you give the place. Little things like this was for me very normal, and then I just think later on as I got on Tour I had some incredible people who sort mentored me and guided me like Peter Carter, Peter Lundgren, Tony Roche, and then my fitness coach Pierre Paganini early on, so in that spell from sort of 16 to 24, when you are really going from boy to man, I really had great people and then, of course, Mirka was there at that time which I was very important for me."
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