Glencoe! A short trip report, GOOD SKIING IN SCOTLAND!!!!

AllyG thats appalling how the kids were treated, did you not get any support from tour reps? She would certainly have heard from me if she treated my lad like that. Also nowt wrong with wellies, would be lost without mine, even if they are pink/purple and blue.........now thats fashion :oops:

Rose,
I think the problem was, the other mothers didn't see what was going on, because they were off ski-ing in their own lessons, and if the kids complained I suppose they just thought they were whingeing about nothing.

The last day at one point nearly all the children had had enough, and they went on strike and refused to ski, and sat in the snow making a snowman. The instructor complained to me about it, and I said I thought she ought to give them some time off, and let them play. And do you know, afterwards my daughter said that making that snowman was the most fun thing she did all holiday.

The mother of the 7 year old boy who was deaf in one ear, complained to her rep about it, but I don't think there was another available lesson and/or teacher.

Ally

You certainly have to be a certain type of person to teach any kids sport. You have to be patient, kind but at the same time strict enough to get the best out of them. My son is a tennis coach and teach's kids and adults but even he has amazed me how patient he is with particularly the 4yr olds. He only has to clap his hands and the litle boys just stand and focus on him and the little girls just stand and go all bashful around him, its amazing to watch. Wish I could just have clapped my hands when he was little.

Well, you must have done something right Rose, or he wouldn't have turned out so well.

And, to return to the original subject, how could anyone eat that much and then ski afterwards? I mean, I would find it impossible to move.

Ally

RoseR wrote:AllyG thats appalling how the kids were treated, did you not get any support from tour reps? She would certainly have heard from me if she treated my lad like that. Also nowt wrong with wellies, would be lost without mine, even if they are pink/purple and blue.........now thats fashion :oops:

Someone help, please call the fashion police

It's O.K. mine were green, and permanently stained with cow muck, not at all fashionable.

Ally

Ian Wickham wrote:

RoseR wrote:AllyG thats appalling how the kids were treated, did you not get any support from tour reps? She would certainly have heard from me if she treated my lad like that. Also nowt wrong with wellies, would be lost without mine, even if they are pink/purple and blue.........now thats fashion :oops:

Someone help, please call the fashion police

Well you know me Ian like to set the trends on the allotment as well as the slopes. :lol:

AllyG wrote:Well, you must have done something right Rose, or he wouldn't have turned out so well.

And, to return to the original subject, how could anyone eat that much and then ski afterwards? I mean, I would find it impossible to move.

Ally

Yes he turned out OK. Its such a shame I am watching a bit of Davis Cup tennis right now and he regularly used to beat one of the players playing at the moment when they were about 12 or 13. Guess his parents had a lot more money than me to let them carry on. :cry: