Horsemanship Life Skills Your Child Will Use as an Adult

I love the fact that riding horses is a healthy physical outdoor activity, but the life skills learned through supervised horsemanship carry farther than becoming fit. By supervised

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Get Your Child Involved in a Character Building Horsemanship Program

Ask any horseman and they will tell you the character building benefits to a child who becomes a horseman over flow the feed bucket. The character building benefits your

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Types of Fear in Riding Lesson Students

Any instructor who has taught for a while has dealt with fear in a student. A horse is many times larger than a person and riders ask them

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A Reader Requested a Post About Trainer Instructors

A Reader Requested: I would like you to present an article about the trainer instructors that keep riders “hostage” by: limiting opportunities to show at their convenience,  refusing to allow

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No One Loves Riding Lesson Cancellations

THE PROBLEM: Lesson cancellations can become a big problem for instructors if they are not handled well.  Lesson cancellations leave holes in your income and also in the

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5 Basic Things Riding Instructors Expect

Before they are concerned about whether a student is the next olympic superstar, a potential champion in the show ring or even a future horse owner, there are

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Riding Without Stirrups – Do You Teach It?

How important is riding without stirrups? Whenever I ask a class of new riders “What keeps you on the horse” one person will answer  “the stirrups”.  Rider’s receive

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Does Your Lesson Horse Drop His Inside Shoulder?

When I think about a horse who drops his inside shoulder a certain tone of voice sort of screeches through my mind.  It’s the voice of a frustrated

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 5 Reasons People Teach Riding | The Riding Instructor

There are a number of reason why instructors teach riding but a majority of the time, if we think about it long enough, we can boil things down

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Teaching Riding Outside the Box

What is it? Teaching outside the box begins with thinking outside the box. Merriam-Webster defines outside the box: to explore ideas that are creative and unusual and that

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