Learning to ski is not easy. I well recall those days.
Skiing is like driving. You can’t see behind you so it’s the responsibility of those behind you to watch out for you.
Expect the unexpected. Now a 4 year old needs to learn this but the father should have been on extra alert for him since the boy doesn’t have the maturity to know this himself.
I can’t help but wonder if the father was right there with the child, or standing back letting him go on his own.
I think you’re on the right track there.
I may rank right up there with the ‘worst father of the year’ for thinking along these lines, but I’m not the guy who would trot my four year old kid out there to an accident serious injury zone just so I could point to him and my friends could go ooh and ah.
The kids joints are developing. The skis place a lot of pressure on those joints. I wouldn’t be risking life-long problems even if he did wish he could do it.
Sometimes you have to be the adult.
I know a lot of people do it, I just wouldn’t be one of them.