I am not your babysitter! I would like to come to the yard and do my horses in peace!

thatsmygirl said:
ANTW23uk love your reply. I can't stand kids either. Come in my stable and they would be drop kicked out just as fast. Little bastards.
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Are you for REAL ?:mad:
That is not just offensive but outright shameful. How dare you comment on children in this way. If we were discussing another ethnic, religious or other group of people (yes people) there would be an outrage and an undoubtedly reported post.
Thank God I have my own yard so my polite & well mannered children never have to be in the same company as someone as bigoted as you.
 
I'm an other not overly fond of kids. For the most part the kids on our yard are polite. It's the mess they leave behind especially holidays and weekends. Mums tend to take them up early and pick up late in the afternoon so they are left to their own devices. Nothing gets swept up, if it falls off a wb it stays where it is. Loads of hay and straw wasted.

I'm the only one on the yard that doesn't have a flashy/clean/well groomed wbs or tbs so I tend to get left in peace. My natives are always covered in mud and look like they have been dragged through bushes so I never get asked questions etc.

If I did have the annoyance that the op has I'm afraid I would be having a quiet word with the YO. Spending time with my ponies is my de-stressing time and I will not allow screaming kids or adults for that matter to ruin that time.

My own personal hate is dog p@@p so I've started piling it up outside the offending child's stable door.

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Given your thoughts noobs I wouldn't want my horses crap anywhere near you, let alone my 'offspring'. Funny thing is, there are statistically far more annoying idiot adults on yards than kids ime.
I entirely agree kids should be supervised till old enough or knowledgeable not to be. But slagging all kids on yards because of some idiot parents isn't on. I've met a fair few idiots who have come to horse owning as adults, & done stupid, irritating & downright dangerous things. And my child has witnessed it too. But I'm not about to start insulting all new to owning adults, by calling them offensive names & saying they shouldn't be allowed on yards, just because of some. My child wouldn't do either, but clearly at 7 she is more mature than some on here.
 
Thatsmygirl, were you not a child once?Possibly with a pony?! I don't like children like the OP describes, but it's likely to be the way that they are because of poor parenting, it's not their fault. You can't tar all children the same way!
 
horsesatemychristmasmoney said:
Thatsmygirl, were you not a child once?Possibly with a pony?! I don't like children like the OP describes, but it's likely to be the way that they are because of poor parenting, it's not their fault. You can't tar all children the same way!
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Yep agree entirely with this. How many times do you read on this forum how people want to move yards and NOT because of children. Because of the adults childish behaviour.
It seems like an adult problem not the kids fault they are like this.
Speak to parent(s) and YO they need to sort it out.
 
cambrica said:
Are you for REAL ?:mad:
That is not just offensive but outright shameful. How dare you comment on children in this way. If we were discussing another ethnic, religious or other group of people (yes people) there would be an outrage and an undoubtedly reported post.
Thank God I have my own yard so my polite & well mannered children never have to be in the same company as someone as bigoted as you.
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And if she were talking about rats it would be perfectly acceptable? If you want a human example, were she talking about ambulance chasers, half the forum might agree? That logic does your argument no favours and it's one of my most hated sentiments. It smacks of the professionally offended to me.

If the poster doesn't like kids and doesn't want them pestering her where she pays to keep her horse, why should she tolerate them?

I apply the same sentiment to all people - any which annoy me get the same response, child or adult. Polite dismissal to their face, I might even call them an expletive when they're not in earshot too.
 
It was the thought of 'drop kicking' the little '*******' that got me. I don't like the imagery, not even being joked about.

I have a great sense of humour, honestly I do but I can't stand it when people use such harsh sentiment towards children. The problem here is the adults.

I just don't get it.

*disclaimer, I am not a parent or owner of the offending article so I am largely impartial*

Oooo I came back to add that my first post said that I would leave the yard if the situation didn't improve. I don't want to be around children while at the farm, I don't really want the noise BUT I still don't want to think of them being drop kicked or referred to as Bastards.
 
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hmmm I wondered how long it would take for this to spark into a firework display. I too have a problem with a child on my yard, except they are not a child. :rolleyes:
 
I don't think the poster meant she would literally drop kick a kid that came into her stable, I think if you've spent your day being driven demented by other people's kids it's easy to get a bit hyperbolic about what you'd like to do, but of course most of us never would, we just grit our teeth and try and be patient.
 
On the whole, I find that pony mad kids are fine. They are playing with their pony. It's the ones who don't want to be there who are annoying/ dangerous. Personally, I like being left alone whilst at the yard, unless I need to speak to someone/ they need to speak to me. I don't want to be followed round by anyone, large or small!
 
I know of a young teenager who was told "Don't stroke that horse, she bites".. teenager continues, and the horse proceeding to nearly bite her finger off.. Yes there was a lot of blood and a nasty tear to the skin..
The horse warned her, ears back teeth baring, but the teenager clearly didn't think she would, but she did.......... sometimes, your better off just banging your head against a brick wall..........
 
Tbh I doubt anyone objects to what the op is saying, or anyone else who has problems with annoying kids, I imagine most of us have at some point. But a few seem to be using it as an excuse to be rude about all kids regardless.
 
BillieBlitzen said:
It was the thought of 'drop kicking' the little '*******' that got me. I don't like the imagery, not even being joked about.

I have a great sense of humour, honestly I do but I can't stand it when people use such harsh sentiment towards children. The problem here is the adults.

I just don't get it.
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Well the wording was perhaps unwise, but I think it was light hearted and jocular rather than literal. I can understand the hyperbole having spent many years being driving insane by various liveries' offspring. The adults are certainly at fault, but it doesn't make the children any more palatable!
 
I was on an "own a pony week" at our stables when I was about 7, and me being me, went to say hello to a pony called Gypsy who was tied up in the yard. She bit a huge chunk out of my right shoulder, it was agony. But i didn't dare say anything to anyone in case I was in the wrong.

Turned out Gypsy was a known biter livery, rescued from gypsies, but how was I to know ? i still have the scars today. Even at a safe, secure yard, a horse can turn - the YO needs to sort this urgently.
 
skint1 said:
I don't think the poster meant she would literally drop kick a kid that came into her stable, I think if you've spent your day being driven demented by other people's kids it's easy to get a bit hyperbolic about what you'd like to do, but of course most of us never would, we just grit our teeth and try and be patient.
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Yup ;) I made it clear I was aware it was a joke. I said I was still a little offended by the image of it.
 
In that circumstance shysmum, I'd say whoever was meant to be supervising you was at fault. If it was own a pony day then yo/ym or whoever. If my 7yr old was bitten in the same situation, then I'd say it served her right, she's spent enough time on yards to know not to approach other peoples horses without permission.
 
The yard is haunted, you are really busy because you are scared being there and much rush off before the ghosts come.... works a treat in getting rid of kids.

This was actually used on me as a child so i guess i was an annoying kid too!
 
I agree its usually the uninterested that are the most worrisome. A yard I was at once had a couple of boys who would appear with pony mad sister. They were always totally bored and got into all sorts of bother. Mum was advised but it was always my little Johnnies wouldn't do that. One time they decided to unscrew all the bolts on tack room door, then climb the hay bales. Another time start up the tractor but the best was when they decided to start pooping in the liveries stables - a different one each visit. Nobody could work out who the culprit was until they were caught in the act....

Kinda difficult for YO.....annoying for livery.....Mum had to make a sharp exit...not funny at the time but funny now - I was the livery that got the last ahem....delivery. :)
 
Mouldy Mistletoe said:
Mum was advised but it was always my little Johnnies wouldn't do that.
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I find those are the parents that make their children worse.
It's fine when parents try and stop their children, even if they fail...but when they point blank refuse to accept their child could do something wrong, that's the type of kids (and parents!) I can't stand.

There was one at a pony day I went to, she wasn't even the "Birthday girl" but the parent of the child insisted her kid won everything and when the child cried and was a brat, the mother would tell her she won!! TO be fair, she was only 6 or 7, but at that age, you should learn how to accept failure.
 
JustFindingTheDecorations said:
It smacks of the professionally offended to me.

If the poster doesn't like kids and doesn't want them pestering her where she pays to keep her horse, why should she tolerate them?
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All of this :) :) For heaven's sake, she wasn't serious! Dear me. :rolleyes:

I have moments of frustration with the kids on the RS part of the yard, they all want to be together so six of them tried to wash a quite spooky horse's legs tonight. The hose is on the private section where my horse and three others are. One is a stallion, there's a mare and foal who've just been stabled after weeks turned out.

I had to bawl out one of the kids who decided to yank the headcollar hard. She went off in a huff and I called away three others, leaving one to groom, one to find rugs. The stallion was interested, came to his door, a kid tried to stroke him. Not a good idea. Same kid them went to the mare and foal, the mare tried to frighten the kid away from the foal. The other mare then bit someone really hard in passing. They were all wound up because of the kids' behaviour/noise.

Equally, another adult livery was really annoyed because her horse was getting wound up with all the noise and six kids competing to shout the loudest.

I sympathise entirely with the OP.
 
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I have been on yards with my previous horse (a particularly evil creature around children, due to his experiences with them before I got him) and found that the unsupervised young children's behaviour caused me huge anxiety and irritation. I found icy politeness ("please keep well away from X because he will bite you/tread on you if you don't") plus "please keep your children away from me and my horse", plus "please come and get your children away from me and my horse - they are putting themselves in danger" all in very measured low tone and accompanied by my best Deathstare, did the trick. However, it was very wearing and I eventually left. Not before one child said to me " my mummy says you're horrible and you hate children". Too right I am, when I have to put up with her lack of responsibility and the consequent dangerous and highly irritating behaviour of her unruly offspring! I always put my GSD in the car if the above children came on the yard, in case they pulled her around, she growled/snapped and got labelled a dangerous dog. Just all too stressful.
 
I can sympathise. When Alfie was new to us and he was still only a baby I found kids letting the metal gates slam whilst I was picking out feet, or chasing each other round the yard/the horses on scooters, or squealing their heads off because they were having so much fun jumping around in MY hay was driving me mad. I told the YO that my horse, who was new to the environment and kicks when he's nervous wasn't really coping so well with the tearaways that bolt around the place 4 hours a day. I was told they'd put a tie ring in the barn so I could tie up in there. The kids had four ponies on full livery and they didn't want my horse to cause a disruption/drive them away. *sigh*.
 
Nah said:
There was one at a pony day I went to, she wasn't even the "Birthday girl" but the parent of the child insisted her kid won everything and when the child cried and was a brat, the mother would tell her she won!! TO be fair, she was only 6 or 7, but at that age, you should learn how to accept failure.
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Parents like this give me the rage, what do they think they're achieving? :confused:

Not that it's any of my business, of course, other than a concern for the future of our race :cool:
 
As a parent of five (now all grown) I can sympathise wholeheartedly with the OP.
I dont like children (other peoples) because they have not been raised as I raised mine. Our home was on the yard of a riding school and back then, thirty years ago kids were raised to be polite, show respect and learned from the older ones. It was a happy, peaceable place to be.
I had two women at my door a few months back saying they were buying their kids a pony and could I do livery?
Nope, afraid not I dont do kids these days!
 
Can't stand loud/annoying/bratty/unsupervised kids on a yard. Dangreous place, parents should be in control. Have endless time for well behaved/polite/responsible kids.

With the former I make a point of being totally unapproachable, grumpy adult they don't want to be about & are generally scared of. I've found it very effective to fix them with 'the stare' & say, quietly, in a staedy voice 'go away you horrible brat'. Sends them running & not coming back. If parents have an issue we can discuss why their darling was unsupervised on the yard around a large, unpredictable animal wearing metal shoes.
 
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