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How can you convince your parents to let you take horseback riding lessons even though your parents are scared you will get hurt?
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∙ 12y ago
That's a really hard one, I'm a mum with a 9 year old daughter, I started riding at the age of 5, my daughter was 4 when she started riding regularly. We both love it but there are risks, the fact is that horse riding is a dangerous sport. Where animals are involved no-one can ever give a 100% guarantee that you will not be hurt.
Try to see things from your parents' point of view, they love you and want to protect you, you can't nag or protest, you need to you need to gently persuade them that this is right for you.
I suggest you that you try taking your parents to watch some lessons at reputable riding schools, talk to the proprietor and some instructors if you can. Speak to other clients too. Their enthusiasm and professionalism may be enough to win your parents over.
Also talk through the safety gear that you can buy which will help to protect you: hard hat, good boots, chaps, body protector.
It's taken me a lifetime to find an equestrian centre that I feel is really right for me, so be prepared to try a few.
You have to kind of look at the things from your parents point of view. It's pretty hard to convince your parents to trust an animal that can not be 100% trusted--and you have to own up to that too, horses are still living things. Secondly, you should go to a horseback riding camp first instead of a horseback riding lesson (sorry if this isn't summer to you, but I guess you'll just have to wait). I think this because in horseback riding lessons you'd have to persuade your parents more, and in camp you do more fun stuff anyways. Plus in lessons you have to groom your horse every time you come, or every other time you come, and that means their head, belly, back, butt, and feet. In camp you have a group that's learning together, plus it won't be necessarily as scary to your parents and they will probably feel mores safer.
I seriously consider this to help--I have been riding for over two and a half years now so it's been a long while when I used to be you! :)
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