seven reasons to keep your child involved with horses
1. Learn responsibility. Children should learn how to care for another living, breathing creature. Horses are complex animals that require careful care. Children must focus on duties and practical tasks caring for their horse. Even though horses are forgiving, mistakes can clearly be seen and children must learn to accept and fix their mistake immediately.
2. Encourage a sense of pride and help boost confidence. Any horse person can tell you how fulfilling it is to master the art of communication and riding ability with a horse much bigger than one's self.
3. Practice focus and discipline. Horseback riding involves attention, focus and proper Horsemanship. It can break up the day's events and anxieties in a rider just by feeling the movement of being on a horse. While riding the rider must take a break from worrying about the day's activities and other worries and just focus on riding.
4. Progressive athletic ability. There is so much more to riding than just sitting on a horse's back. It takes strong core muscles, flexibility, stamina, and mental concentration. In fact, riding is a full body workout.
5. Create a stable atmosphere and make new friends. There's nothing more important than creating a happy, warm and inviting atmosphere for one to be confident and harmonious. Keeping children involved with a warm loving environment full of other horse loving children can go a long way in keeping that child inspired and even away from electronic gadgets as computers, tablets, cell phones, video games. Being involved with horses makes the children have to go outside and enjoy fresh air, even if manure is nearby.
6. Give a source of happiness. Being involved with and affectionate in simple communication can create a basic level of love and understanding initiating be hormones within oneself. It is a need for everyone.
7. Teach a lifelong skill. Children who grow up with horses know how to communicate better not just with horses and animals, but also with people. Being active in younger years can easily stem over to being active in adult years. There is always room for equestrian improvement if only one keeps riding.
~ Georgina Wilson
2. Encourage a sense of pride and help boost confidence. Any horse person can tell you how fulfilling it is to master the art of communication and riding ability with a horse much bigger than one's self.
3. Practice focus and discipline. Horseback riding involves attention, focus and proper Horsemanship. It can break up the day's events and anxieties in a rider just by feeling the movement of being on a horse. While riding the rider must take a break from worrying about the day's activities and other worries and just focus on riding.
4. Progressive athletic ability. There is so much more to riding than just sitting on a horse's back. It takes strong core muscles, flexibility, stamina, and mental concentration. In fact, riding is a full body workout.
5. Create a stable atmosphere and make new friends. There's nothing more important than creating a happy, warm and inviting atmosphere for one to be confident and harmonious. Keeping children involved with a warm loving environment full of other horse loving children can go a long way in keeping that child inspired and even away from electronic gadgets as computers, tablets, cell phones, video games. Being involved with horses makes the children have to go outside and enjoy fresh air, even if manure is nearby.
6. Give a source of happiness. Being involved with and affectionate in simple communication can create a basic level of love and understanding initiating be hormones within oneself. It is a need for everyone.
7. Teach a lifelong skill. Children who grow up with horses know how to communicate better not just with horses and animals, but also with people. Being active in younger years can easily stem over to being active in adult years. There is always room for equestrian improvement if only one keeps riding.
~ Georgina Wilson