Your kids and skiing

[gladerider]

i put my first daughter on skiis when she was a week shy of being 4. my second daughter started when she was 3.5. i put them in ski school every year for a week up in tremblant until last year. we ski about 20 days a year in total.
they both started to ski confidently in their 3rd year. this past season they both skiied black diamonds at whiteface with me. they can ski pretty much anywhere in the east coast.

here is the kicker - they both don't remember how they learned to ski.

 

[wa-loaf]

My wife told me this today.

She had the kids out in the yard yesterday and my daughter has a play car out there. She gets in it and tells my wife she's going to drive and do errands.

Wife: oh really where are you going?

Daughter: The ski shop.

The brainwashing is working. :lol:

 

[gladerider]

that's funny !!

it's great to see little ones get excited over skiing......

 

[bill2ski]

With my kids, I took a somewhat different approach than most.
We held off untill the boy was 10 and the girl was 8. More due to the fact that we spent the recreation budget traveling to the beach in Jan.Feb.March.
My son is a natural athelete and has been playing base/basket/football since kindergarten, motocross from age 7 , all the park sports ie;skateboard,rollerblade,razor, and surfing. Oh yea ! and we race go-carts.
So we always knew it was a matter of time before we came full circle and introduced the kids to skiing.
A couple trips to the tube park and a school sponsored cross country trip to a local c/c center put the pulse back in my veins. The next winter we all got All4one silver pass' without the kids ever so much as seeing, let alone skiing Sunday River.
A couple of runs getting the nuts and bolts of it and the boy starts ripping it up and launching off every hit he see's.
Not to be outdone, his little sister does her best to keep up with him, though she likes her ski's to remain on the snow, not above it as he does.
The 06/07 season saw additional silver All4 one pass' and the kid's took things to the next level with the boy spending time in the park/pipe learning to do it all with different degrees of success and the girl carving the steep and deep and learing to negotiate the bumps with mom.
Ya gotta love it !

 

[drjeff]

My wife told me this today.

She had the kids out in the yard yesterday and my daughter has a play car out there. She gets in it and tells my wife she's going to drive and do errands.

Wife: oh really where are you going?

Daughter: The ski shop.

The brainwashing is working. :lol:

I need to start working on that one with my 3 year old! I figure if it took me a couple of rides to and from daycare to get my 3 year old to properly pronounce "Daiske Matsuzaka" the new Red Sox pitcher, getting her to want to drive to the ski shop should be a piece of cake!