Comments on: Should Riding Instructors Yell?

By: Where Do Riding Instructors Stand? | Riding Instructor University

Where Do Riding Instructors Stand? | Riding Instructor University — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:23:08 +0000

[...] Try not to yell. [...]

By: Building Healthy Relationships with Your Students | Riding Instructor University

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:36:55 +0000

[...] just be the guy (or gal) who yells at them once or twice a [...]

By: Laura Jane Thompson

Laura Jane Thompson — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:05:40 +0000

Thanks, T.A., and you are absolutely right. I should have added a disclaimer that riding instructors should yell when theyare unable to hear you otherwise. I’ve had to use that one many times myself.

By: T.A. Paxton

T.A. Paxton — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:10:08 +0000

Yes. One should always reserve yells for dangerous situations. If you yell at the kid for playing with matches you don’t want it mentally filed under the same heading as getting cookie crumbs on the couch.
Don’t forget that one exception though. Yelling is justified if they can’t here you because they are being galloped off in a big field out of control! (Saw that happen!)