About

An archive of fourteen years.

ParentingAces is the long conversation Lisa Stone has been having with junior tennis since 2014. This site makes that conversation navigable — by stage, by theme, by voice — for the families who find it tomorrow.

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The host

Lisa Stone

Founder and host of ParentingAces. For more than a decade, Lisa has done what no governing body, federation, or media outlet has been able to do for junior tennis families — she has asked, week after week, the questions every parent eventually faces, and built a body of work no other voice in the sport has assembled.

ParentingAces began in 2010 as a blog Lisa wrote when her own son was deep in the junior pathway. The podcast launched in 2014. Five hundred and fifteen episodes later, it has become the most cited spoken archive of junior tennis culture in the United States — the place coaches, parents, players, and founders go to hear the questions plainly asked.

Why this site exists

Until now, fourteen years of ParentingAces has lived as a chronological feed: the next episode, then the next, then the next. That is the right shape for new conversations and the wrong shape for an archive. A family arriving at junior tennis in 2026 should not have to listen to fifteen years of episodes to find the ones that match where they are.

This site is the first attempt to make that body of work navigable by something other than chronology. You can enter by stage — where you are in the family journey. You can enter by theme — the question you are trying to answer. You can enter by voice — a coach or parent or researcher you trust. And you can search across every transcript at once.

What you'll find here

Built around 598 episodes, 20 featured voices, 16 themes, and 5 family stages.

Journeys — five family stages from "New to Tennis" through "College to Pro," each with a curated reading order and the long testimony of families who walked it.
Themes — sixteen long-form essays distilling what the archive has been arguing for fourteen years on coaching, mental game, college pathway, the parent role, and more.
Voices — the 20 guests Lisa returns to most, each with their own profile, recurring themes, and (where they have arrived) Then & Now reflections from the guest themselves looking back on what they once said.
Library — every episode, searchable across the body of every conversation, filterable by theme, year, guest, and format.

The Then & Now project

The most distinctive piece of this archive is also the slowest one. Lisa is reaching out to past guests — coaches, parents, researchers, players — and inviting them to revisit a moment from the conversation they had with her years ago and reflect on what they would say now. As those reflections arrive, they appear on the guest's profile alongside the original quote: a living dialogue between a voice and its own past.

If you were a guest on ParentingAces and your profile here is missing a Then & Now reflection, get in touch and Lisa will send the magic link.

How this site is built

Every episode, theme, journey, and voice on this site lives as plain markdown — no proprietary CMS, no lock-in, no opaque database. Search is powered by Pagefind, a static-first full-text search engine that runs entirely in your browser; nothing about your queries is sent to a server. There are no ads, no trackers, no paywalls, and no recommendation algorithm trying to keep you here longer than is useful to you.

The site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages and serves from edge caches around the world. New episodes flow in through a script that reads from the same archive Lisa has been building since 2014.

"Most parents listen because they want a roadmap. The deeper reason they stay is that they want to know they're not alone."

Subscribe to the podcast wherever you get your shows. New episodes every Tuesday. To get in touch with Lisa — about a guest reflection, an episode idea, a correction, or just to say thanks — write to lisa@parentingaces.com.

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