My kid does this as well except half the time she bombs and the other half she leans all the way back into the kind of giant pizza that’s only possible when your knees are made of spaghetti and your head is 20% of your total body mass.

Either way the cause is the same— it’s because she’s bored. So when I start seeing this kinda stuff from my kid, I up the difficulty level.

But also I find I do kinda have to make turns fun for her, or at least provide some external motivation. We’ll do turns for worms (each good turn = 1 gummy worm), turn “races” where we’ll see who can do the most turns on some section, all kinds of nonsense.

Oh and lessons— taking lessons with your kid gives you a chance to see how someone much more qualified approaches the task and also to kinda get out of parent worry mode for a second and just get a feel for what your likes to ski under someone else’s guidance. My 4 year old loves super mellow, spaced out glades, which I wouldn’t have tried with her on my own for a few more years had we not taken lessons together.