We’ve reminded her that one day she’ll be happy for the skills and experiences she has.
...are these parents aware that skiing (snowboarding tubing etc.) is a completely optional life skill that someone who dislikes skiing can universally avoid? Because: she already knows how to ski. If she ever wants to use that skill, she has it. But also grown-ups can learn to ski, I've seen them do it. I feel like there's just no sense here that they are participating in a very niche and optional hobby rather than, like, teaching her to do the laundry or what online bill pay should look like.
Even the phrasing of "my daughter INSISTS that she doesn't like skiing"...kind of calls it into question. Not "my daughter doesn't like it," she's CLAIMING to not like it. You know why people mostly claim not to like things? because they don't like them. The odds that she's covering up a secret love of skiing are basically zero.
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...are these parents aware that skiing (snowboarding tubing etc.) is a completely optional life skill that someone who dislikes skiing can universally avoid? Because: she already knows how to ski. If she ever wants to use that skill, she has it. But also grown-ups can learn to ski, I've seen them do it. I feel like there's just no sense here that they are participating in a very niche and optional hobby rather than, like, teaching her to do the laundry or what online bill pay should look like.
Even the phrasing of "my daughter INSISTS that she doesn't like skiing"...kind of calls it into question. Not "my daughter doesn't like it," she's CLAIMING to not like it. You know why people mostly claim not to like things? because they don't like them. The odds that she's covering up a secret love of skiing are basically zero.