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I agree....you can't make a kid "want to please" to the degree that it takes to do this sport.  My mother-in-law thinks that I have brain washed my daughter (Joni) into liking horses and endurance.  She is 10 years old, started when she was 8 (SE region rules) and has more knowledge/experience than many adults.  All of this because SHE wants to do it.  Just ask anybody in the SE, they will tell you she loves it and cries if she is pulled.  But the best part is :  She really cares for the horse and doesn't want to hurt them.  That it what it takes to do this sport, respect and love for the horse.

 

Jody and Joni and the girls

Barbara McCrary <bigcreekranch@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Have you raised children that "wanted so much to please their parents?"
I've raised three and am now watching four grandchildren, and I haven't seen
a lot of evidence that they want so much to please their parents that they
would do something they otherwise didn't want to do.

Barbara

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Long"
To:
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: [RC] Kids, ponies and distance riding... Get a grip people


>
> Children often want to do things that are not good for them, it's one of
the
> reasons there are so many activities that do not permit people younger
than a
> certain age to participate (and so many others that have divisions for
children
> but do not allow them to compete directly with adults).
>
> However, I disagree with what you are suggesting. Young children want so
much
> to please their parents, that it is easy for parents to believe that the
child
> "wants" to do what in reality the parent wants them to do. I'm not
talking
> about teenagers here, the subject is kids younger than eight years old.
>
> Joe Long
> jlong@xxxxxxxx
> http://www.rnbw.com
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