A series of articles about the unique challenge of parenting a horse obsessed kid, and how to know when their passion might be problematic.
If you’re trying to decide whether your child is old enough for their first horse, you aren’t alone. Many parents of horse-crazy kids find themselves weighing whether how soon to buy their child a horse or pony. This decision often centers on wondering if your child is old enough for their own horse. Buying a …
Read More about Your Child’s First Horse: How Old is “Old Enough”
Learning horseback riding takes practice, good advice, and (just like any sport) training. How long it takes you to learn horseback riding will depend on several factors, which you’ll learn about in this article, including: 4 factors that determine how long it takes to learn to ride a horse 1 training tool that can make …
Read More about How Long It Takes To Learn To Ride A Horse: Kids & Adults
If you’ve spent time in Internet comment sections or discussion forums in the past decade, you may have picked up on an internet-birthed trend in which women with equestrian hobbies are referred to in derogatory, demeaning, or at times flatly cruel terms. Somehow, it not only became acceptable to not only associate equestrians with being …
Read More about Horse Girls: How Pop-Culture Redefined Equestrians
Many parents feel bewildered when their child, seemingly out of nowhere, begins “obsessing” over horses. The “horse crazy phase” has almost a mythological status as something that can be predicted to come and go as “just a phase,” but, just like any developmental phase for kids and teens, attuned parenting invites us to connect with …
Read More about Parenting Horse Crazy Kids and Horse-Obsessed Teens & Girls