On the subject of brat kids...were you ever one?

[alsxx]

The post below brought back memories for me of an occaison when I was about 6 or 7 and I decided to try the brat kid style....

I remember doing some kind of jumping class and my pony ditched me at the second fence and bombed out of the ring. I can quite clearly remember storming out of the ring to where mum had caught him and telling her I hated him (which I didnt

) and she should sell him. I can then remember some kind of response along the lines of use of my crop and my bum if I didn't get back in and finish the round. Needless to say on our second attempt we did jump clear, but my god I have never seen my mother so angry!!

I never did that again

So can anyone else ever remember throwing a tantrum when they were a kid, or is just me that turned horror for 10 minutes!?

 

[BSJAlove]

i am also guilty of one bratish moment when i was 10, when my pony refused. i compleated the round, kicked my pony out of the ring handed it to mum and said that was her fault and my mum gave me a good telling off infront of everyone. i now know it was my fault in the end. i was going to fast and too tight for my young pony. i have never and vow never to behave in that way again! oh and after i had learnt that valuable lesson, i gave my pony a big hug and a treat to say sorry and mum made me appologise to the officials. haha never again!

 

[Tinkerbee]

I don't think I did... I had a very scary auntie and an even scarier grandfather (who I'm still scared of

) ready to give me a clout if I misbehaved/threw a tantrum

I did once have a huff about having to wash my pony for a show (a grey

) and said she would simply have to go slightly messy... so I had to clean my cousin's pony as well

 

[MrsMozart]

Nah, I was one of the ones that was so desperate for a neddy, that I'd ride anything and everything and be grateful for every moment on a horse. If it went bad, it was my fault and how could I do better. This saintliness was only with regard to horses though

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I have told my kiddlettes that if they ever did the brat thing, then they'd be walking home and ads for the neds would be going in the paper the same day

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[Irishcobs]

Nope can't say I was. I have gotten stressy with my parents when I am nervous,but that is before the event and I would never take it out on the horse.
I know a girl that shouts and screams at her not so horsey dad, she is an only child and is very spoilt. If I spoke to my dad like that I would be buried alive and my horses sold. She does get told off by the YO if she gets to mouthy at her dad and has been warned out hunting that if it carries on she will be sent home.
Unfortunately she is now at a college with a bad reputation for spoilt, rude people so I don't think she will get any better.

 

[alsxx]

Lol at MrsM, butter wouldn't melt!

When I look back I am mightily embaressed, and to be fair it wasn't even that bad, all I did was say she should sell him! I think the greatest humiliation was being told of in front of everyone, and even to this day a good 20 years later she still doesn't let me forget!! Learnt my lesson though and never did that again!

 

[TinselRider]

I can honestly say if I had EVER thrown a tantrum over my horse ( didn't get my first till I was 12) he would have been sold there and then and I would have had a wollop round the behind. There have been moments where I have been very stressed but I have just had my mum take the horse while I went for a walk up the lorry park

 

[duckling]

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Nah, I was one of the ones that was so desperate for a neddy, that I'd ride anything and everything and be grateful for every moment on a horse. If it went bad, it was my fault and how could I do better. This saintliness was only with regard to horses though

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Ditto, I don't think it's possible to be a brat when you have to beg and borrow ponies to ride, let alone compete!

When I was about 11 I actually saw a girl of about the same age have a tantrum at a riding school show (on her own pony) after it wouldn't go near the flags in the gymkhana - she told her mum she wanted a better pony and that hers was useless, so I marched up and said if the pony wasn't good enough for her I'd love to ride it and finish her gymkhana

Unfortunately the girl declined and got back on her pony to finish, but my mum found the whole thing hilarious, although did tell me to watch my cheek!

 

[JessPickle]

Well didn't do any shows when I was younger! had a pony who hated jumping and the school so as a kid I mainly hacked! jumped a few logs that was it!

Someone I went to school with came 2nd in a couple of SJ/XC events so insisted she put him on working livery and bought a new "winning type" pony she stuck in a RS I rode, did a grid with no hands no stirrups! was an amazing pony with great scope! that is brattish. Her parents were the stupid ones though for letting a child take control!

 

[jumptoit]

I am guilty of it on a couple of occasions about 10 years old I think - I got shut in the lorry alone for the rest of the day and paid entries for the following month.

 

[Queenjude]

I wasn't one. I worked at a riding school so anytime I got to ride it was a bounus! And when I got my first horse I was so happy to have my own horse I never threw a strop! I think it helped that my parents aren't horsey so they were never around!

 

[Chavhorse]

No not with my Mother in charge .....She used to run our Pony Club and we were all terrified of her.....any bad behaviour at home resulted in having to muck out all the stables and woe betide you if you left one little piece of poo in any of them!

 

[Dubsie]

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I wasn't one. I worked at a riding school so anytime I got to ride it was a bounus! And when I got my first horse I was so happy to have my own horse I never threw a strop! I think it helped that my parents aren't horsey so they were never around!

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Me too, in fact my parents disapproved of horses so much so they wouldn't pay or contribute for lessons I had to walk to school and save the bus fare, and I walked 4 or 5 miles to the riding school and spent the day doing anything I was asked in the hope the owner would let me do 1/2 hour lesson if someone got off after half an hour when most of the class were on hour lessons.

 

[FrecklesMum]

I was also once too a brat (although my OH would argue that I offten still am!!).

I had a very good pony who would jump anything so long as you rode him, if you did not, he would stop! Anyway, No1 bratling was riding like a pile of poo and he stopped, so being a horrid child, i hit him behind the saddle, HARD.

My mum, looked at me and said 'if you hit that pony one more time, i will drag you off him and hit you with that stick'.

So I hit the pony agian (God, I was horrid!!) at which point, my mum dragged me off the pony, bend me over and smacked my botttom with the whip - I have NEVER, EVER HIT A HORSE UN-NECESSARILY AGAIN!

Bloody good lesson for me though!

 

[luckilotti]

according to hubby - i still am one!
i dont think i was ever a brat at shows though - however, my parents did used to dump me and the trailer/box there and come back at tea time near to the end of my showing days! it was more a matter of i would bite their heads off if they passed me the wrong brush, or stroked my pony and made a hair out of place!
i never had an issue if i wasnt placed or anything so i cant have been that bad