Kids Spitting in a Horses Face

There is a childminder near our yard it backs on to the passage where we have to walk through to get to our block. Well these kids always jump up and shout, which makes my arab run off they find it hilarious. So one day everyone from my block (about 15 of us) went round to said childminders front door and spoke ( rather loudly) about the dangers of scaring horses. Kids didn't care, 1 week later I take arab round to gate wait for children to jump up except this time I held foxy and asked him to rear. He reared and snorted in childrens faces. They haven't done it again :D
 
To the OP: Good on you! The behaviour of some children is disgusting. What dot of child under 10 would do that to a horse?! How revolting. Have their parents/teachers/family etc taught them no respect for animals or themselves whatsoever?!
 
I'm a teacher too and I think that some parents have no idea how bad *some* kids actually are! It really grates on my nerves that on the first day of the holidays there are radio phone -ins where parents complain that they don't know how to handle their kids! When we have parents evenings it is quite an eye opener, when you see the parents! It explains a heck of a lot (although those sorts of parents generally don't bother turning up at all !)
 
perfect11s said:
sorry to say this well actualy im not, having.... kids, horses, dog or cat no different if you carnt afford or look after properly DONT have them.... im more than a little sick of this idea its a right for people to have kids and then expect the rest of us to pick up the tab..
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How exactly,is paying for childcare or using the afterschool clubs expecting the rest of the country to "pick up the tab"?
I sugest you step away from the Daily Mail-life is not perfect,parents have to work,badly behaved children come from homes who won't or can't teach right and wrong and are not produced simply because their parents work.
 
OP - Good on you, I have had to do the same thing myself afew times. (once with kids ripping down my fencing and then chucking it at my pony and afew times with kids kicking dogs :( )

My parents worked throughout my childhood. My brother and I had a childminder when we were very young, then we started after school care. I like to think we are both well rounded people and I know I am likely to be slated for this but I think being 'smacked' did us both good.

My dad is very old school and we knew if we did something wrong we would have him to answer to! Kids arent scared of getting in trouble anymore, so they do whatever they want :(
 
Yunalesca said:
How exactly,is paying for childcare or using the afterschool clubs expecting the rest of the country to "pick up the tab"?
I sugest you step away from the Daily Mail-life is not perfect,parents have to work,badly behaved children come from homes who won't or can't teach right and wrong and are not produced simply because their parents work.
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Children are not compulsory. If you have them, you owe them some time and some input, far more valuable than the mortgage on the must have owner occupier home, the hols the car and dare I say the horse.

Labelling people in that smug way is not really helpful. I don't read the Daily Mail (in fact I don't read any newspaper since they're all ****) but I do believe that to bring up a child sometimes takes sacrifice and humility -from the ADULT not the child. You can pay for all you like, it doesn't replace parental presence and example. 'Quality Time' is a cop out.

IMHO, obviously ;)
 
Although what the children did wasn't right, the fact that they took the OP's comments on board and apologised means that there is still hope for them. If the children had turned round and told OP to F off, then it would have been more concerning. I suspect they had no experience of animals whatsoever and were probably trying to provoke a response from the horse. (And I can't stand kids!)

Sorry if the spelling is off - just had half a bottle of red wine. Got a bad back so wondered if getting slightly squiffy would help......seems to be working x
 
Rebelzmum said:
Although what the children did wasn't right, the fact that they took the OP's comments on board and apologised means that there is still hope for them. If the children had turned round and told OP to F off, then it would have been more concerning. I suspect they had no experience of animals whatsoever and were probably trying to provoke a response from the horse. (And I can't stand kids!)
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Agree - mentioning parents had them apologising and running for the hills, so presumably they feared getting into trouble?

I do think that the behaviour was disgusting but it annoys me a little when people tar all kids with the same brush with such sweeping statements. We all have a tendency to look at our own childhoods with rose tinted spectacles too. My brother and I were brought up very well, expected to be polite and respectful of adults etc etc. Mum was "housewife & mother" and dad worked full time. We knew a clip round the ear hole wasn't very far away if we behaved badly and my mother can still shut me up with "that look" at 100m. However my brother was a little sod in his youth and always up to no good - sometimes he was caught and sometimes not! I would be lying if I said that I was always an angel too ;). Our parents sometimes found out and we would be suitably reprimanded, sometimes another adult reprimanded us (like the OP) and sometimes we got away with it. Part of life, making mistakes, learning from them and (eventually) growing up.

I too am a teacher, in a large secondary school in a disadvantaged area. I would estimate that around 80% of the kids are mostly polite and respectful and try really hard to do the right thing most of the time - though they do of course make mistakes. The rest struggle a bit with these concepts and this can usually (though not always) be traced back to poor parenting or a traumatic experience of some sort. We have to work extra hard with these children to try and help them become more well rounded - after all it isn't their fault and to be honest it is rarely actually the parents fault that they are so poor as their own parents were usually pretty awful too!

Some of these "difficult" children come from homes where both parents work, some one, some neither and some one parent families or living with relatives or in care. Mind our most successful children fit into these categories too. Again I don't think you should tar all of one type of parent with the same brush. I like to think my own daughter has been brought up very well and know she doesn’t like to disappoint us; however I am not naive enough to think she has never done anything wrong that I don't know about - I hope that whatever it was she learnt from it and regrets it now.

Longest post I've made - rant over - sorry! I really hope that OP has taught these miscreants a lesson and they are lying in their beds tonight re-evaluating their actions.

Would have been amusing if mare had power snotted them right in the face - as my gelding has me on more than one occasion!!!::eek:
 
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