Lots of young people ski in Colorado. The only young kids we see in the backcountry tend to be ones who come with us. Why is this a distinction? When you ski in the backcountry you are much less able to predict the conditions.
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The question now becomes how do we incorporate it into raising our children. The fantastic part is that in most instances it will happen naturally when we get out of our own way. Here are seven tactics we used.
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Cognitive dissonance. You know that feeling when a deeply seated belief you hold is shattered by new evidence?
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My bicycle meditations brought me to the realization that there is a pulse beating through most of our existence. The sun comes up and goes down. Our blood courses through our body. There is birth and there is decay. It is all one big complex rhythm.
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Science now shows us this airy concept is founded in neural connections and chemical reactions in neurotransmitters. The fields of brain based teaching and positive psychology were eye openers for me.
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There is an image seared in my mind, part real and part predefined. Big, fat flakes of snow falling, the stillness of sheltering in the trees, the quiet glide of skis through fresh, dry snow and sharing this emotion with someone special.
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Do you ever look at your child and fill up with an overwhelming sense of pride? Of course there are moments when you feel that Pol Pot would beat you in a compassion competition but for the most part you take pride in being a good parent.
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