Ah that one child policy. All of your hopes and dreams invested in one little shiny-eyed kid who wants to watch cartoons instead of hitting the books / track.

No doubt some of these kids spend their weekends being frogmarched to Chess academies, dragged to after-school Maths classes, or stretched on a mechanical rack to reach Yao Ming proportions. It must be tough to be the only roll of the dice.

A ping-pong lesson
No pressure

This was nice to see though; Mum, Grandma, Grandad all helping the little one out with her backhand on a Saturday evening- smiles all round.

[A couple of minutes after this photo was taken, junior fluffed a top-spin smash and they beat her mercilessly with a specially varnished paddle. They were quite right to do so, it was a very easy shot.]