Spoilt Kids

I have always been lucky and always had horses and ponies. I had my first one before i could even walk. From as far back as I can remember I had to ride everyday, I didn't do the mornings as my mum did those and I got ready for school (she used to work as a groom and getting up a stupid o'clock was easy). I went off to school and then came home and went straight outside and would ride. If we were going to a show on the Saturday I would have to clean all my tack Friday night and make sure I had everything ready to go. I would then get up in the morning go and get the ponies ready to travel and load up. I was rude to my dad once, it wasn't about horses, I was 13 and I got told that if I ever acted that way again I would lose the lorry.

Never have I hit, kicked or yanked at a horses mouth because it didn't win. Never have I been excessive with the whip or my spurs. Never have I taken what I have for granted. I knew if I didn't ride well, or if I was nasty to an animal I would lose the ride. I respected my parents and appreciated everything they did for me.

Kids need to learn more respect! I am 24 and still wouldn't dream of swearing at my parents!!!
 
i think its because parents are to scared to'disaplin' their child infront of people incase other people get the wrong impression. when i was at shows as a child, i had 1 warning and if i did it again id b dragged of my pony, given a smack on the bottom and sent to the lorry for the day. and i used to HATE staring out the lorry window watching the others do what i could have been doing if i had stopped my tantrum after the first warning. it tought me alot of lessons. haha
 
I had a loan at the riding school Pickle is now at aged 9, to be honest they just wouldn't accept bad behavior, you treated the pony like your own. Tack was checked and if they ever found out of an ill treatment of any of there ponies you were out. Definetly worked.

I got Pickle aged 15 and appreciate him so much, went to school with some people who would fairly regularly sell there pony if it didn't win and it truly shocked me!

To be honest if I had acted like some of these stories and had a pony my dad would have banned me from riding till I learnt to behave!
 
On the subject of spoiled kids,sometimes things are not as they seem.

We recently witnessed a teenaged girl throwing the most massive tantrum and speaking to her mum quite rudely and we just rolled our eyes and thought "ahh horsey brat"
but... when we got to know a bit more it would seem she was more sinned against than sinning, quite sad really.

And, people often think my daughter is spoiled because she's an only child and has a car and her pony and a horse and I help her with poo picking and mucking out (in winter) and tow to shows, and I do help her with costs but what they don't see is that she works 2 jobs and pays quite a bit toward it herself.

She's only 18, doesn't drink much, doesn't smoke doesn't do drugs, isn't pregnant, doesn't splash out on big nights out and loads of clothes, also I chose to allow her to have the horses when she was a child unable to make her own decisions, when she's established and working full time, she'll pay fully for them.

As for shows, it took her 2 years before she even got a rosette at all with her pony so she's more about the taking part, that's not to say we haven't had show "moments" but when pointed out to her, she gets over it pretty quickly.
 
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