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Lets hope that 'the loud teenagers' turn into quiet adults or a lot of YOs will go out of business.
Maybe we should just make a law that no one under the age of 21 can own a pony cos the way it's going they'll be nowhere for them to be kept unless parents have lots of money to buy own land.
Pony breeders- what's the point of breeding them if the kids can't keep them anywhere?

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I'm not saying that there shouldn't be yards where kids can't go, some people actually like the evil little specimens....
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I just can't abide other people's badly behaved children and don't see why I should have to put up with their annoying interference when I am trying to spend quality time with my horse.

That's all
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are we talking about kids under the age of 10 or anyone under the age of 19?
if we are talking about the latter then from some peoples comments i would be buggered!
if we are talking about kids under 10 then i think as long as the kids are well behaved then they should be allowed if they arent then the YO should say something to the parent.
for example there is a woman at our yard who brings her grandson up sometimes and although i dont like little kids i can honestly say he is the sweetest boy ever! i dont mind looking after him while she fetches the horse in, he helps me sweep up and brush tabby and he knows not to go behind a horse etc
BUT...
there are kids up there that i dread coming on to the yard like the spoilt brat that plays football with his DAD! around the horses and his mum is very stupid as she doesnt say anything to them. i have told her not to let him kick the ball when tabby is tied up as she may spook and kick him (which would be my fault! not the precious little boy)

if we are on about teenagers then how are we supposed to learn?! everyone goes on about how we need more young talent but then bans us from yards
luckily my yard allows teenage owners and i make sure that i am a good livery
some teenagers give the rest of us a bad reputation by not having any common sense around horses

I fully understand YOs but they shouldnt tar us all with the same brush

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I would have been buggered too as a teenager! I never caused problems at the stables. Always swept, cleaned tack, groomed horses that needed doing, helped out with feeds and I was just a riding school student! It was the kind YO's letting me help out that now at 33, I am able to get my own (LOL, that is if I can find somewhere to keep it!).

I can understand what people are saying about not having unruly kids around the yard so that they can have some peaceful riding time but it seems from all the posts here, to be the non horsey kids who come because they have to (because the parents ride), that are the menaces! The horse kids seem to be the sensible ones!
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At the end of the day, it is down to economics and personal attitudes. If there weren't so many adults owning horses then perhaps some livery yard owners might have to change their rules and allow children, or perhaps they would rather close down, sell their yard for lots of money and invest in something else. As it is right now, livery yard owners, certainly where I owned my yard in England, have the pick of the crop and if they don't want certain people or children then they don't have to; there are plenty more people, without children, on their waiting lists.
 
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im not saying all kids misbehave, just that they are more of a liability. some horsey kids are really well behaved, they have to be. id just rather not put them in that situation. its just horses for courses i guess ! ! !

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So are dogs, but they're allowed....

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Give me a dog over a child any day....... ABSOLUTELY CANNOT BE DOING WITH THEM.

Was at a yard once that was full of kids - it drove me mad. I am down at a yard to spend time with my horse, not to spend at least half an hour struggling not to be openly rude to some bored child who insisted on following me around like I was the sodding Pied Piper, asking stupidly inane questions such as why I had different brushes for my horse or why it had four legs????
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I actually MOVED in the end because I was so utterly sick of the annoying ankle biters......

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what amazes me is that people seem to forget they were a child themselves once..
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I do understand WHY some YO's prefer their yards to be child-free, but what I don't understand is people's lack of tolerance. It seems to be getting worse. Some of the 'reasons' for having childfree yards on this post have made me laugh, because they're so ridiculous.
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At the end of the day do we have YO's who are completely incapable of setting down rules for having children on yards and stating that those parents who do not keep control of their kids will be thrown off the yard?
Other people's kids bug me too, usually at shows when they're running around (unsupervised) up my pony's backside
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but I wouldn't DREAM of suggesting they make shows childfree...


why should children be limited to riding at a riding school or pony club (besides which, most who attend PC own a pony so I'm confused as to where they're meant to KEEP said pony (if livery yards should be child free). Presumably, a child can therefore only have a pony if mummy and daddy buy them their own field... again, limiting horse owning to the rich only.
 
You seem to have missed the point that these yards are private property and as such the owner has the right to choose who rents there and who does not. As to people following rules, there are always people who flout them, sometimes even going to the extent of changing their name!!
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young kids drive me nuts - and yard owners or even other liveries become unofficial childminders just so that parents can ride or do their horses in peace.

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I am with you on that one, especially the childminder bit. Drives me mad - you chose to have the child (not you MH, people generally!) so either pay for a childminder/babysitter, or look after your child yourself. And don't leave it screaming.

I absolutely can't stand kids on yards, drive me up the wall. I can tolerate quiet children in small doses but after a stressful day at work, going to a yard full of kids would just tip me over the edge I think!
 
Some parents seem to go along to the yard and leave the kids to their own devices whilst they are busy doing the horses, and let them run wild. where i stable my horse, there were 7 kids the other night running around like they were feral, screaming shouting and causing havoc. My horse was frozen to the spot and didn't want to enter the yard when i tried to bring him in as it was so noisy. there are even kids toys lying around the place which totally amazes me. I have nothing against kids individually, especially when they are busy with their ponies, but just running around the place causing mayhem whilst not being watched by parents is totally unaceptable. It seems to be irrisponsible parents that are the problem, who are more interested in playing with their beloved horses (one particular lady was more concerned about removing stable stains from her very 'white' horse) than supervising their kids.
 
My daughter doesn't need a childminder. She is too busy looking after her four ponies whilst I look after my mare and foal. (4 ponies - how did that happen???!!). She also helps to looks after the other adults horses when they are on holiday or at work. She is 11. She started riding when she was 5 and will be a much better rider than I ever will be.
Reading some of the posts here has made me wonder.
What would you have done with a child like her?
Restricted her to the local riding school until she was old enough to drive?
Told her to get over it, its a passing phase?
Teach her stable management from reading books?
The pleasure I get from watching her learn is fantastic. However, looking at the content in some of the messages here, I think we should count ourselves lucky that in our area there are only two childfree yards. But guess which ones always have the vacancies - here's a clue, its not the ones like ours - we are full and not everyone on our yard has kids.
 
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Lets hope that 'the loud teenagers' turn into quiet adults or a lot of YOs will go out of business.
Maybe we should just make a law that no one under the age of 21 can own a pony cos the way it's going they'll be nowhere for them to be kept unless parents have lots of money to buy own land.
Pony breeders- what's the point of breeding them if the kids can't keep them anywhere?

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I Actually said "spoilt teenagers"
At the end of the day it's my yard, my home and my rules.
I know i was once A kid with a pony, but by god i would NEVER have got away with the attitude of kids these days.
The fear of a bloody good hiding was enough to keep me in check......................Not anymore though eh?
 
You are right. Your yard, your rules and I respect your decision not to have children on your yard.

However, in the last three years my YO has had to thow two people off for being rude, abusive and swearing in front of the kids. Both were women over 21. No one with children has been asked to leave.
 
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Reading some of the posts here has made me wonder.
What would you have done with a child like her?
Restricted her to the local riding school until she was old enough to drive?
Told her to get over it, its a passing phase?
Teach her stable management from reading books?
The pleasure I get from watching her learn is fantastic. However, looking at the content in some of the messages here, I think we should count ourselves lucky that in our area there are only two childfree yards. But guess which ones always have the vacancies - here's a clue, its not the ones like ours - we are full and not everyone on our yard has kids.

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Of course there should be places where children can keep ponies and learn - my son has been riding from the same age as your daughter, he is a better natural rider than I will ever be. This summer during the holidays he cycled up to the yard every day twice a day to turn out, muck out and put the horses away, and handle the foal. He is 14.
When he was young I didn't inflict him on anybody else though, I chose small private yards, sometimes we were the only clients there so he got over his hyperactive and rowdy stage without ever being a nuisance. In fact when he did go to a riding school for a short time with lots of other children he hated it (said they were too noisy and messed about too much - go figure!)
 
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