The Equestrian Blog

The Death of Childhood

I came across this post in Yellow Swordfish, while looking for functionality to add to The Equestrian Blog.

"The following is a direct lift from a comment I received today that came from a friend who is a teacher. Read it and weep...... View Here

Just like the writer, I struggled to pull a comment together without the use of expletives. The only thing that kept me in check was the knowledge that not all areas have been completely infiltrated by the PC brigade.

They are trying to regulate, insulate and sanitise the equestrian industry and they are making in-roads. but they'll never get away from the fact that learning to ride and care for horses is a physically demanding and basically dirty job.

No child will ever take care of a horse without gaining in strength and character and it isn't the daily grind that builds the character, it's the care, the bond that builds between child and pony and it's pictures like this that make every cold wet morning in February, every trodden on toe, every bruised bum and every fork full of horse poop worth every minute of it.

They can keep their 10 squillion dollar MP3 players and their outsourced, resourced, individually wrapped and mapped careers and give me a child on a pony any day.

Character is everything and every child raised with a pony will have it in spades.