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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 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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When To Teach Games in Riding Lessons & When Not To

Games are an important teaching tool because they engage students and keep them interested. However there is a right time and a wrong time to use them in

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Summer Horsemanship Camp- 20 Tips for Success

For many kids summer horsemanship camp is a dream come true. It gives horse lovers the opportunity to hang out with horses and other horse kids full time.

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The Blurry Line in Teaching Riding Levels| Do You See It?

There is a blurry line from one level of riding to the next that can cause problems in the instructor / student relationship particularly if the student is

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Why Do You Teach Trot Diagonals in Horseback Riding Lessons?

Have you ever considered the reason behind why you teach trot diagonals? Do you teach it because it was taught to you? Do you teach it as a

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Plotter and Panster Instructors in Horsemanship – Which Are You?

Plotter? Panster? When referring to their writing method, fiction writers say they are plotters and pansters. A plotter uses structure to lay out the story and then fills in the details

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