rach1984horse
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on Sundays I teach at a local Riding school. It's a pony club centre and I have one pony club group every week. As it's near christmas I only had 3 kids this morning. A couple of the ponies were being a little lazy, but was 10mins into the lesson so still on warming up. Asked the first girl to canter to the rear of the ride. That went fine, no problems. Girl who was second's pony had come back to walk. Instead of using her heels and asking the pony to go back into trot she was leaning down thumping it on the shoulder with her fist. When I asked her what she was doing she just laughed and said "Well give me a stick then."
I've never been faced with a kid like this before. I told her very firmly that if I ever caught her doing that again I would take her off the pony straight away and she would not be taking part int eh rest of the lesson. I purposely didn't give her a stick for the rest of the lesson. After not getting a canter oput of her pony when everyone else did she sat up and started to ride the pony properly, and it went quite sweetly for her.
What would you do if you were faced with a kid like this? I didn't want to make a big thing of it in front of one of the other kids parents, but am sure I made it quite clear that I mean business and I will take her off the horse the next time. It's just playing on my mind a bit.
Advice/opinions?
I've never been faced with a kid like this before. I told her very firmly that if I ever caught her doing that again I would take her off the pony straight away and she would not be taking part int eh rest of the lesson. I purposely didn't give her a stick for the rest of the lesson. After not getting a canter oput of her pony when everyone else did she sat up and started to ride the pony properly, and it went quite sweetly for her.
What would you do if you were faced with a kid like this? I didn't want to make a big thing of it in front of one of the other kids parents, but am sure I made it quite clear that I mean business and I will take her off the horse the next time. It's just playing on my mind a bit.
Advice/opinions?