Since I was about 6 years old my family took me on a ski holiday ever winter to Austria and Switzerland. Once I started going to high school in Switzerland, I had the change to ski nearly every day in the winter season.
In my town we have a ski club where they take kids up to the local ski mountain and let us all ski or snowboard for 4 hours then takes us all home. But they stop the program when you reach high school. But I think I've been skiing since I was 5 (even though I'm not that good now but I can handle myself) because my family (especially my dad) was big into skiing.
When I was younger my older brothers would always go and one day they took me with them. It was hard and scary at first, but I had so much fun I just had to keep going back. Now I hope to take my kids this year.