Ten tricks, tools and techniques to teach a little kid to ski — and spare yourself some misery

My expectations for my daughter’s first skiing attempts were low.Over the years I had seen enough crying children and frustrated parents scattered across Utah’s slopes to grasp the miseries of teaching a kid to ski. Maybe I should have just put her in a lesson right away. But at least I marched into the breach with my eyes open.To be honest, things started out better than I could have hoped. But eventually we reached that special parenting moment when one must carry two sets of skis,