When we think of motivation we think of an audience of adults chanting "I can do it" at a Tony Robbins seminar, but motivation is just as important for children.

As a gymnastics parent, you probably already realize how important motivation for children is.

Teaching your children about motivation and goals at an early age will help them to become fulfilled and successful adults.

But how? Let's discuss a few ideas right now.

To start with, introduce your kids to concept of setting goals by having a discussion about them.

I don't mean lecture your kids, but have a back-and-forth discussion about what they would like to achieve - don't be too serious, they get plenty of that at school.

Keep it simple, fun and light, and remember to let your kids have their say, listen to their ideas about achieving goals and help to develop them.

Next thing you can do is set up a goal system --> using goals you created during your discussion, make up a chart of attainable but challenging goals and place it somewhere every one can see it.

Believe it or not, French Open, renowned for being played on slow red clay, was initially played on grass!

The tournament was first played in Paris in 1891. In 1897, a women's singles was added as well. But it wasn't until 1925 that non-French players were allowed to compete. There were no official championships during war years of 1939-45.

The 1920's were glory days for French tennis. On Female side there was legendary Suzanne Lenglen - known for both her daring fashion sense as well as her tennis.

And on male side there were famous Musketeers who defeated US to win Davis Cup in 1927 and held on to cup until 1933. These 4 Frenchmen ignited French passions:

--Henri Cochet, Rene Lacoste, Jean Borotra, and Jacques Brugnon:

Borotra, known as " Bounding Basque from Biarritz" always wore a blue beret on and off court;