Posh hobbies for children - Skiing/ Sailing/ horse riding

[MamaLlama123]

wondering how common these posh hobbies are?? do your children do any?!

how much would it cost for children to learn

I rode as a kid but never had my own horse / pony - couldn’t afford it. Grew up in an ex council house in the Welsh Valleys but went through a horse mad adolescence and my Dad found a lovely farmer’s wife who rode and gave me lessons every weekend. I was a shy bookworm so this was the activity that actually gave me some physical confidence in life, plus a deep connection to nature.
It fell out of my life at 18 when I left home but I am grateful to this day.

Pimlico by any chance? Mine went to a sailing club there and it was free in term time and £5 a day in the holidays. Their other hobbies include fencing (full kit costs about £1000) and pedal harp - the cost of which still makes me want to cry....

Our state school in Lambeth has it as an after school option! Still super popular with lots of Caribbean families, we have people playing it in the park all summer.

I’m from Sussex, we played stoolball in my primary school. I have yet to meet anyone else who even knows what that is. Not sure if that makes it posh or just weird 🤷‍♀️

I grew up skiing from the age of 3. We weren't posh - my mum and dad just loved it. It was the only holiday we had each year, apart from maybe a week in a caravan.

@londonmummy1966 - I spent so many happy hours messing about on boats at Westminster Boating base as a teen in the 80s. Is that where you mean? In the park on the embankment behind St George's Square/Dophin Square?

@IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads - absolutely - an amazing place lots of the DC round here go and love it there. So glad that the US Embassy got short shrift for wanting to knock it down to build a bridge as it was apparently too far to go to Vauxhall.

I grew up in Pimlico. Went to the original incarnation of the school. The boating base /sailing club was a total lifeline to us inner city kids. So glad it's still there. I didn't know about the US Embassy bridge plans and very pleased they did come to
anything.

It is such an amazing place and so many children enjoy messing about on the river. I was so pleased that the planners didn't cave in to the Embassy.

DD2s harp teacher went to the old Pimlico and speaks very fondly of it

Skiing - if regularly them more of a family holiday unless super rich. But lots of state and private schools at secondary and sixth form level offer annual trips.

Sailing - our DC was at an independent school from Reception to Yr4. From about Yr5, some we knew sent their kids to sailing holidays/courses. Definitely a posho thing, not met anyone else who’s done this apart from disabled friend who got the opportunity via Teenage Cancer Trust.

Horse riding - depends where you live. Close to the countryside here and there is no snobbery about it. Obviously, there are posher places and more down to earth places.

Chess, Mathmo type clubs - intellectual not posh

If posh = expensive then my ds’ driving lessons and car insurance are a damn sight posher than the skiiing and piano lessons he’s had over the years 😂

Dd rides, its £27/wk for a 30min private lesson. She also has a pony which is a lot more eyewatering (£400/mo livery, then vets, transport, shoes, worming, rugs, tack, dentist, physio) and wants to compete but I honestly dont think I can keep up with that :/

I learnt dinghy sailing at my very normal rural comprehensive school.

My first dinghy cost £100 - no more than a pair of trainers and a lot less than many a games console.

Have friends who have children at regular state primary and secondary schools now, also whose children are learning to sail on the local reservoir using borrowed boats - Optimist dinghies.