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		<title>Get Your Child Involved in a Character Building Horsemanship Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2025 03:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ask any horseman, and they’ll tell you—horses shape character in ways that overflow the feed bucket. The life lessons a child gains from working with horses depend largely on how their horsemanship education is approached. If the goal is simply to win ribbons and chase recognition, the character-building benefits shrink to a mere handful of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Encourage the Gift of an Experience with Horses for Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2024 19:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As riding instructors, we understand the benefits children receive when they have horses in their life, but Christmas, in this new age of giving meaningful experiences rather than gifts, emphasizing these benefits can affect a child’s life more than the gift of a new electronics. For children, horses offer profound emotional, physical, and social benefits [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Wear a Riding Helmet Even If Parelli Doesn&#8217;t</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2023 14:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I refreshed this 2013 article about the importance of wearing helmets because it&#8217;s just as important today as it was ten years ago.She’d taken the polo pony out for a trail ride when the mare bolted toward home. As the mare made a sharp right down the lane at a gallop, Merri lost her seat [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Annie Wants a Horse</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Mar 2023 14:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Do you know kids who want a horse of their own? This #Shorts tells about one way to get one.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Can You Watch Your Child&#8217;s Riding Lessons?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2022 00:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ask- Don’t Assume Before you hand over money to a riding instructor for your child’s first riding lesson find out their policy regarding your presence during lessons. Never assume that a riding instructor thinks like you think. Some instructors like parents to watch every lesson, particularly with small children and beginners.  Other instructors don’t mind [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>5 Requirements to Become a Good Horseman According to Harry Chamberlin</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2021 17:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[An Excerpt From Riding and Schooling by Harry Chamberlin “The correct principles of equitation and horse training are in themselves simple and well defined, and easily within the comprehension of any intelligent mind. Unfortunately, these principles are so difficult to find in the mass of literature on equestrian subjects, and often so intermingled with inaccurate [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Pony Club Develops Character in Kids</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TheRidingInstructor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2018 22:16:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As a professional, I&#8217;ve always taught Pony Club Clinics and even helped form a club in the 70s, but I didn&#8217;t become fully immersed in Pony Club until 2000 when my daughters became members. 2018  One of my adult daughters has been training for a management position. We joked around about how it seemed that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Signs of a Safe Riding Lesson Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2018 19:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you teach beginners you know the importance of developing a safe riding program. Safety is the number one requirement for beginners, but how can you tell if a program is safe for both students and horses? There are no guarantees, but the following is a basic list of signs that can help determine if [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Sexual Abuse at the Barn-How You Can Help</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2018 20:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I commend The Chronicle of the Horse for the articles in the April 9 &#38; 16, 2018 issue which speak out against sexual abuse in the horse industry. They’ve been doing a terrific job of enlightening us with a number of sensitive subjects in the past year. The brave women that spoke out in the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Horsemanship Life Skills Your Child Will Use as an Adult</title>
		<link>https://theridinginstructor.net/2949/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TheRidingInstructor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2018 20:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 horsemanship I mean a riding lesson program that encompasses horse care as well as riding. Even better is a good riding lesson program that supports Pony Club [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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