Our 2 little ones will be 4 & 5 this winter and are both comfortable trailing mum & dad on the pistes. For weekend ski days is there any benefit in putting them in group lessons or will they progress just as well skiing with us? Last year it was family ski at weekends and lessons during a week in Siviez and they seemed to enjoy both equally.
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Why not stick with what you did last year? They may not progress as well if they spend time skiing with you but they may want to spend some time with mum and dad. And enjoy it while you can. My pair just want to speed off down the hill and leave us oldies for dead.
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Unless they are training for something or aiming for the Olympics why do they need to progress all the time?
In my view lessons are a means to an end- the end being us all skiing together happily. If you are there already then brilliant- enjoy it while you can. Mine are teens now and I treasure the memories of us skiing together as a family when they were little.
I think it depends on your attitude rather than theirs. Are you happy to ski in a manner and at a pace which they will enjoy and continue to improve (so you can ski as a family in later years in the kind of terrain you love), or will there be family frustrations because you want to push on at a pace which isn't good for the kids' enjoyment or development?
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^^this and at 5 years the transitions from snowplough bombers to a mix between decent turning and snowplough turning/braking can be achieved.
So maybe get them going through school and then ski with them a lot.
Our kids have done 2 weeks of ski school per year and then quite a bit of skiing on top of that.
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For weekend ski days is there any benefit in putting them in group lessons or will they progress just as well skiing with us?
Answering this question directly it is impossible to say. On the lessons front progress would depend on the instructor, size of the group, your childrens willingness to learn. On your front, it depends if try to enforce what they've learnt in lessons and/or challenge them, or indeed if you want to do that.
As others have said there are other questions to be asked. Namely, how important to you is it that they do progress and are you happy to reign yourself in order to fit in with their needs?
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Half and half. Get them 2 or 3, 3-hr private lessons, ski with mum and dad the rest of the time.
After all it is free
After all it is free
BobinCH, as suggested already by dobby, if weekday ski school and weekend family ski worked last time, then go with that again.
As the years go on the routine will vary as your kids progress.
Enjoy pottering around with your kids now - it doesn't last long.
Soon they will be terrifying you with their speedy antics and wild things in the parks.
And then, of course, they will want to try boarding . . .
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Keep them skiing at as low a level as possible for as long as possible. Doesn't take long before you won't see them for dust.
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And then, of course, they will want to try boarding . . .
I thought boarding was for the older generations judging by the age of boarders I see on the slopes.
My son found my old mono ski in the garage and wants to try that out. Sadly he is far too big to get into my one piece dayglow suit.
I suppose they all want to emulate their parents.
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my 6yro said she wants ski/snowboard lessons every day of the next holiday, it appears she doesn't want to ski with us at all
We try to have weekends as a family, and will probably do that next holiday, put her in group lessons for week days, possibly a snowboard lesson or two, but will try keep the weekend time for us so she can show us what she's learnt in the week.
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Little Martin, your 6yro might possibly prefer ski school because its more fun.
6 year olds want play, not sport.
So, go for lots of fun tree routes (always easy for kids with their short skis and hell for adults with long skis - but watching dad/mum struggle is half the fun), go where the kiddy instructors take their class, lots of stops for drinks and chocolate and time to make snowmen or make slides.
Regain your inner child and start having fun.
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So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
I somehow suspect that BobinCH and the Mrs won't be struggling through the trees.
You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
@Jonpim, almost certainly fun is the reason she wants to be in group lessons - kids her own age rather than myself acting her age, and she knows they will visit the fun park several times along with the air bag, "daddy can I have 20 euros so I can have more goes on the air bag" was the quote last time
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Last year it was family ski at weekends and lessons during a week in Siviez and they seemed to enjoy both equally.
Sounds a good balance to me.
We've tended to do 5 x 2 hour private lessons in a week for our two (or occasionally a group of four). Meaning that they get plenty of skiing with us and some concentrated lesson time.
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Thanks for the feedback. Picked up the Stockli rental skis to much excitement this week. Just need some snow now!