Introducing My 10-Month-Old Baby to Snowboarding

Pre-parenthood, I always heard stories of babies that could swim before they crawled or run before they walked. It seemed that babies were built with instinctive reflexes that went beyond sucking or smiling — reflexes combined with a lack of fear and low center of gravity, two great advantages in the world of snowsports.

I’ve seen tiny skiers bop their way down the bunny hill as young as two years old, and marveled as kids seemed to get younger and younger with every YouTube video I watched....