Any other parents on NS?

That's kinda fucked up. Also props to OP for owning his shit and working on cleaning up his act.
 
Hahaha, this thread is so far from what I thought it was going to be. With that said, Im going on almost 10 years on NS. This will be my 10th winter in Utah and the first I didn't buy a season pass. My wife and I are expecting our first in February.
I still kept my snowmobile as my days will probably be less frequent than they once were, I prefer to spend my days brappin. Hard to say what my little girl will want to do. I certainly will teach her how to ski as soon as she can walk and if its her thing, I look forward to many more years of driving to and from the hill.
Although skiing is certainly looked at as a menial recreational pursuit by the majority of 'responsible' profit seeking adults, in retrospect, it provided a direction and outlet for my adolescent/young adulthood that I feel so fortunate to have had especially in comparison to all of my peers who ambivalently wallowed in their own dispair getting from there to here. Do I wish that for my daughter!? Sure I do, there are worse places to shape the future of a kid that the communities of ski resorts.
I'm excited that I will still be able to k-fed a rail by the time she is transitioning from pizza to french fry!. Or we will move to the beach. The end.
 
after a decade on ns im only 24 and not thinking about children at all. maybe in a decade? good luck with that though, sounds like you're gunna train'em right.

all the folks from ak i know are crazy mother fuckers, but good folks. that's a state i'd like to check out. submitting denali and skiing off that bitch is a bucket lister for me for sure.
 
I am 23, and cannot fathom having to take care of a child. Props man.

Also your story is like textbook small town shit haha! I know, coming from a town in the middle of nowhere
 
mad respect man I'm 20 and the thought of a kid is a little ways off but you seem to have your head on straight don't listen to some of these fucks you and the kid will be fine. I often think about stuff like that with who the next generation will remember the way glenn plake doug coombs shane and those guys. For the record my kids will also learn to ski pow and park on race skis it makes them better haha. good luck man.
 
That post made me realize that your sig is a coat hanger.

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Skiing is definitely the reason I didn't end up worse than I am. When you have something to look forward to and constantly think about you kinda want to stay out of trouble. I think it's the reason I'm not a drug addict or alcoholic like a lot of the people I grew up with.
 
You have nothing to apologize for. Ive seen that alaska st troopers show the cops are cocksuckers and it looks easy to catch bullshit charges and get caught up in the legal system. Living somewhere like Alaska having a kid age 20 is normal. I grew up in a rich ass suburb and am 28 so almost noone has children still...cheaper/poorer areas most people have had kids by my age just depends on where you are.

The kid will keep you out of jail he'll be the best thing that ever happened to you Alaska is somewhere with a for profit prison system they want to incarcerate as many folks as they can. Congrats and have a good ski season.

The town my mom moved to in Boston its absolutely disgusting watching women in their 50s wait at the bus stop for elementary school age children. But its understandable since houses are all 500k-1.5 mil. Noone I know from the Boston area (all of whom grew up in rich suburbs and went to good colleges don't know many lower class people) can afford a house in a nice town with a good school system.

Im a successful enough 28 year old too (have my own business and haven't worked in almost 4 years and go to Tahoe in the winter for a few months to ski so I'm not a hard luck story by any means) and its pathetic and depressing that if I got someone pregnant I couldn't give the kid anywhere near the upbringing I had unless I relocated to a cheap part of the country.
 
The troopers can be cocksuckers, but I've dealt with them before and really unless you pull some shit like I did it's not that bad. I totally deserved what I got. As far as living situations that's why I want to run cats and heavy machinery. Cat drivers make a fair amount and so does anyone who can run a bulldozer. I would be ski-bumming working minimum wage jobs in ski towns till I was 40 if my son didn't come around. It's a great lifestyle but I just didn't have the motivation to aim any higher until now.
 
You are a fucked up piece of shit. This guys is obviously trying to do good for his son, as fucked up as anyones past may be, that doesn't mean they are a fucked up person.

Grow the fuck up.
 
Hahaha. You are a father but you are still a kid! Dude your only 20 years old. Save the father time, I have seen skiing progress soooo much shit for someone older.

Glad you got plans to put your kid on skis though...Thats your best point.
 
Read to your kid. Starting now. My parents did and it has more to do with me skiing than anything else. My parents don't ski. I think they wanted me to play baseball but they didn't pressure me when I didn't like it. In middle school the librarian also coordinated the school ski trips. When I first started middle school I remember being stoked that the library had cool magazines like Thrasher. The librarian started recruiting me for the school ski trips and then she talked my parents into letting me go. My middle school librarian gave me ski lessons in between ski school lessons until I was good enough to ski with my friends. Who knows what the future holds, reading to your kid now will give them a good foundation whatever they choose.
 
I'm 26 and the thought of having a kid is the absolute last thing on my mind. Congrats and good luck with that OP. I'm going the bachelor route as long as I can.
 
In all seriousness, I"m not letting kid anywhere near a public school. I'm going to be teaching them one on one until ~13 then they're going straight to college to learn from people who actually know their shit.
 
i laughed at a lot of irrelevant replies but anyway....

share the stoke! newschoolers really will be oldschoolers if we don't pass on our passion to the next generation, and let them decide where the sport will progress. it doesn't matter your age or any of that other stuff, if skiing is something that you and your son can bond over, then more power to you. the most important thing is that he has fun with his dad.

My best friend is "forcing" her 6/7 month old onto skis this season, in the front yard or the flat base area of her local ski area, just to try it out and get used to it. That way he can learn how to ski and walk at the same time. I'm buying him the skis of course as every good aunt should, after getting some good advice in the gear section of NS =)

i found this on youtube of an 11-month old skiing. pretty much just keep it fun, stay within their developmental boundaries, don't expect too much.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB8qN80Ic7Q

 


I got a little girl of 19 months. When I go to the park with her I let her hang out with the big kids, and do things her Mother wouldn't let her do like launch herself down the big kids slide from the top unassisted. I can tell her adrenal gland is alive and well when she can't get high enough on the swings from pushing her, and she always has a big smile on her face.

I seriously can't wait to teach her how to ski, get her in gymnastics, dance class, and encourage her to do whatever she wants in life.
 
I have been and I actually really like doing it. I'm gonna send him to public school probably through 7th grade but homeschool him like I was through high school. Homeschooled kids statistically do better in all areas and become more independent and critical thinkers which is what I really want.
 
2 kids. Oldest just turned 4, this is her third season. Last season she skied 26 days and could ski any green run on the mtn.
 
Man I'm 21 and I wish I was a parent. Love your approach to your current situation OP. Sounds like you have the right idea to me! Just stay off the drink.
 
I have a 10 year old daughter that I ski with 3 or 4 evenings a week. We lap tbat park all night. We usually take off together and when I'm in the jumpline she stays beside me and roll over the knuckles. And when I'm hitting rails she follows me and 50/50s some of the easy boxes. Its so fun, but there were a lot of years spent on the bunny hills getting to now. I never forced her to get better or try anything she wasn't comfortable with.........we just ski together and have fun.
 
Mr. .AR6rider.$ what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this thread is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
 
That's what it's all about right? Now that I think about it, you won't just see families cruising the mountains anymore, but people with their kids in the park. Not the goons you see just cruising through, but parents teaching their kids to slide rails, grab and spin, stuff like that. That's one of the reasons I'm stoked about how young I am because I still got at least another ten years of actually hitting the park and I'll be able to teach him the basics. I hope to not get broke off though and be doing cork 7's when I'm 40 along side my son.
 
Man, there's some heavy words flying around in this thread. Stay in there op, it seems like you have things figured out now, and fuck the people throwing personal attacks.

But it's always interesting to think about how others perceive the world of skiing. I'm pretty new to this whole scene as I got into skiing watching the same guys that are big today. I always think that it will be weird seeing what kind of crazy shit the next generation will be throwing down though, probably stuff we think is impossible.
 
Babies having babies. Im older than you by a bit and I would be pretty bummed if I had a child right now.
 
What am I gonna do? Cop out and be depressed because I have a love child? He didn't choose to come into this world I helped bring him here. I see fathers my age be deadbeats all the time and I can't do that. Gotta stay positive, because now there's someone depending on me. I'm not perfect, nobody is, but I'm not a quitter either.
 
Honest question, did you ever consider abortion? I'm 99% sure thats what I would do but I'm stoked for you and your ability to be confident in your decisions. I wish you and your son the best.
 
I told her whatever she does in that area is her choice, and I believe that for every woman. We also considered adoption but she had been in the system before and we decided it wasn't right. Lets just say the paths we were both on weren't leading anywhere good before she became pregnant and our son saved both of us from that. It's amazing what a life changing experience like a child can do to people if you're willing to take it on.
 
Fuck the haters you sound like a genuinely good dude. Have fun being a father I bet you'll de just fine. Hang in there and spread the stoke
 
yeah man i got a 3 month old boy, my first. I never imagined having kids but now can't imagine without him. Shits crazy and would have been super crazy if I was 20 instead of 29. You got the right attitude OP, role with it and step up and thats 9 more years of your life you arn't fucking up like I was, and you'll only be 38 by the time little ones 18 so doing it young has advantages.

I been teaching kids to ski for 10 years and can't wait to teach mine, I'll have him strapped to the chest this winter and pull on the XC skiis in the sled. I remember getting kicked of my home resort all the time when I was a kid for hitting the smallest jumps or cutting into the trees and now patrolers are cheering you from the lift while you hit trailside kickers and gladed areas everywhere and terrain parks - it will be super cool to see him grow up skiing in that kind of atmosphere. And like OP I learned to ski on those skinny slaloms and remember my first time out west skiing real pow in those things, after that you can ski anything.

Enjoy the ride bro! Kids are the future - young rippers to the world!

 
at least his kid won't be a giant fking douchebag like you - I pray your ignorant ass never has kids, in fact I pray you nut a rail so hard they explode rendering you impotent and unable to spread your ignorant ass genes on
 
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