Remembering Equine Lessons Learned from Moms
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Mother's Day is a time to celebrate the hard-working, irreplaceable, and much-loved mothers, grandmothers, step-mothers, aunts, mother-like figures, and other women in our lives. It no secret that these women have decades of lessons on a variety of topics to teach us, and some of us are fortunately enough to have grown up learning about horses from horse-savvy moms or mom-like figures. Here are some things we—The Horse staff—and you—our Facebook and Twitter fans and readers of The Horse—learned from the horsewomen in their lives.
The Horse Editor-in-Chief Stephanie Church grew up with a horse-crazy mother who fostered her daughter's equestrian side right from the very beginning: "My mom had me out at our barn and propped up on a horse's back before I could walk. That sort of learn-by-osmosis effect had me loving horses from the very start. I can still remember my first riding lesson on Lady the teeny-tiny pony at age 4; I was so very excited and the lesson was far too short! It's because of my mom that horses have been a central theme in my life."
TheHorse.com web producer Jennifer Whittle said she also grew up with a knowledgeable, horse-savvy mother.
"My mom taught me everything I know about horses—literally," she said. "I don’t remember a time when I wasn’t out at the barn either watching her train and care for our horses, or learning (by doing) the responsibilities associated with our herd. She had me riding a horse as soon as I could somewhat sit in the saddle. She also pushed me to be involved in our 4-H horse club, in which she later became a leader and coached our horse bowl and hippology teams to state and national titles. We’ve experienced numerous late-nights walking a colicky horse, monitoring mares ready to foal, and administering quick first-aid fixes until the vet could arrive
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