DizzyDoughnut
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My friend asked if she could bring her husbands autistic nephew to see my shetland because she thinks it might help him.... i said ohh yes of course bring him down whenever you want.
Now I'm not good with children, they scare me, they are fine at a safe distance but I have no idea what to do with them which wouldn't be so much of a problem except my friend is also rubbish with kids... was hoping the childs mum would be coming as well so i could just do the pony bit and the mum could do the child handling part but sadly thats not happening.
The pony did have another small child that came to play but he was quite happy to tell you what he wanted to do and spent about 2 minutes on the pony and the rest of the time chatting to her and leading her around jumping in every puddle he could find, while the pony walked him to the next patch of grass.
So my question is what on earth do I do with the child? brush the pony, ride it? what else?
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Now I'm not good with children, they scare me, they are fine at a safe distance but I have no idea what to do with them which wouldn't be so much of a problem except my friend is also rubbish with kids... was hoping the childs mum would be coming as well so i could just do the pony bit and the mum could do the child handling part but sadly thats not happening.
The pony did have another small child that came to play but he was quite happy to tell you what he wanted to do and spent about 2 minutes on the pony and the rest of the time chatting to her and leading her around jumping in every puddle he could find, while the pony walked him to the next patch of grass.
So my question is what on earth do I do with the child? brush the pony, ride it? what else?
Help