http://ridinginstructoru.com/index.php/building-healthy-relationships Advice and tools for riding instructors and other horse business owners. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:01:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-RC2 http://ridinginstructoru.com/index.php/building-healthy-relationships/comment-page-1#comment-1035 Kelli Martin Mon, 23 May 2011 04:13:50 +0000 http://ridinginstructoru.com/?p=29#comment-1035 I agree competely with this article. Must of the kids I teach I only see once a week and either for a half hour or a hour, so I found out a way to draw the children closer to me in this short amount of time. In the time while the child is walking to the ring with their horse and also while their mounted and warming up at the walk (or the trot if their more advanced), ask how their week has been going, how that big test they had went, what are their plans this summer. It's amazing how much kids will open up in those first moments when you show you care and they come to trust you and so do their parents. I agree competely with this article. Must of the kids I teach I only see once a week and either for a half hour or a hour, so I found out a way to draw the children closer to me in this short amount of time. In the time while the child is walking to the ring with their horse and also while their mounted and warming up at the walk (or the trot if their more advanced), ask how their week has been going, how that big test they had went, what are their plans this summer. It’s amazing how much kids will open up in those first moments when you show you care and they come to trust you and so do their parents.

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