A good way to bring your kids back down to earth if they are getting too cocky is to hang out with skiing kids.

I love hanging out with snowboard people, who as a breed are awesome. However, they also happen to find snowboarding groms really cute/cool, and will happily say so to their faces. This makes the kids feel special, which is nice if you are American and believe in constant positive re-enforcement as a parenting technique, but for Brits creates a risk that your kids will start strutting round like, well, Americans. Full of themselves.

A good way to bring your kids back down to earth if they are getting too cocky is to hang out with skiing kids. This can be humbling for a mini-shred, because (as a generalisation) skiing kids go faster. Speed is the most basic benchmark of competence for a child, and thus I have found it useful from time to time for the kids to chase a skier for a couple of hours to temper their bravado.