Makes you wonder

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I was at the CF today. It was absolutely heaving. Busiest I've seen by a long way.

With that in mind, I was amazed to see a mother with a young child of around 3 or 4 years old taking the kid to the top of the slope. The child clearly could not ski. It looked as if he'd never even been on skis before. Mum was walking down the slope beside him. She was just wearing boots. I kid you not when I say that the child fell over every 1.5 to 2 metres. Mum picked him up and off he went again for another 2metres, and the process was repeated. The child had gone about a quarter way down the slope when a member of staff walked up the slope and asked them to leave.

A snowboarder I was talking to in the queue for the lift had over heard the mother say that because the queue for the lifts were so long, she saw little point starting on the bottom step and said the kid could start at the top. rolling eyes

Unbelievable. A prime future candidate for the Darwin Awards?

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It does indeed. I didn’t know ESF are allowed to teach in the UK Toofy Grin

Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

On a rather longer, less confined and less busy slope, I suppose the 'throw into deep end of swimming pool' style of teaching has some merit.
But said child will never learn if parent keeps picking it up, will it?

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@Awdbugga, I was there today too. Took my 2 children for an hour 11-12. With 7-8 mins queueing for each lift, it didn’t seem very long. Daughter said I should have got her up earlier so shr could ski for longer. It was pretty successful all in all. Considering a weekend before 1/2 term to take them back to Scotland but maybe Easter is more realistic.

There’s a special offer on at CFe for 4 days, £6 off whole hours for adults. Book by the 8th for any day in January. Annoyingly only worked if I booked the children and myself separately. That took me most of the News last night to work out, hence the annoyance. Maybe that is why it was busy?

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@Awdbugga, If you'd driven that far, surely you'd be better off carrying on going to Scotland? Decent forecast for the weekend. I'd have gone but son has a birthday party Crying or Very sad