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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]hah, you'd laugh at us then. We pay $86 x 3 for private lessons a week. Two kids do tennis, one does gymnastics. We also paid for them to take private skiing and snowboarding lessons back when they were first learning.

However, it actually makes a huge difference in outcome. My daughter was struggling to get her back handspring with a year's worth of group lessons. Nails it in one month of 2 private lessons a week. Now is moving on to a roundoff back tuck. With the skiing - now they can all keep up on black diamond trails. Makes family ski trips more fun for everyone.

Anyway, our fixed expenses are low (no mortgage or other debt) and we make more than enough money to afford all of this so I don't see the problem with it.[/quote]

It’s not the affordability, I think some parents who grew up with less income go overboard.   Why couldn’t she get a basic back handspring?   Did she love it or was it your idea.  I bet your kids could have been successful on the black diamonds trails on their own after gradually moving up once they mastered the small trails.  That’s what my kids did.

Just because you can afford private lessons doesn’t mean that should be your first thought.  They’ll feel a lot more accomplished if they didn’t feel like they always needed one on one training when other kids don’t. [/quote]

oh please honey . I grew up in Utah and we were kids that showed up with skis we got at a yard sale that were 20 years old and our Tractor Supply Overalls we used when shoveling actual horse shit. Even we had lessons. It’s beyond idiotic to hop on skis without proper training. yes i started skiing when i was very young, but i absolutely was sent to ski school each winter break. Us poor kids got special deals and often our friends and family worked as ski patrol, or instructors at the resorts, so we got most stuff for free. [/quote]

We did it without instruction and were fine.   I can’t think of one thing that we would have needed training for.  My SIL and her father loved skiing and went all the time.  I could take it or leave it.  But they didn’t take lessons and they were always at some mountain every weekend and winter vacation.    Maybe Utah is more dangerous than Maine ?    We were recreational skiers and weren’t going to take it any further.  [/quote]

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