Ya’ll know we have a 10-year-old son we call “The Kid” in these parts. Well, we had hoped he’d take to the horses more than he has and would write some posts here and there. It hasn’t happened. Yet. We haven’t given up hope but he’s not showing much interest. Mikki and I can’t really understand this since we would have both LOVED to have had a horse at his age, but as I mentioned before, he’s more of an “indoors” kid. I think if he was to ride a horse he’d get into them more, but our two horses are both pretty spirited and I’m not sure I’m ready for him to ride either of them yet. We’ve toyed with the idea of buying him his own horse but I refuse to buy him something I’m not convinced he’ll take care of and we don’t need any more pasture ornaments!
I’d love to hear from some of you who have kids who aren’t into horses as much as you. Have you had any luck forcing them to be interested 
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I haven’t seen too many boys his age interested in horses, so it may just be a boy thing. I, however, would have given my left eye when I was 10 to have a horse. I’m 37 and just got my first (leased) horse. I agree….they sure do poop a lot! By the way…the owner of my horse has 3 because she bought her then 12 y.o. son one. It turned out to be too much for him (sold as 7 y.o. was actually 2y.o.) and hasn’t been ridden in 2 yrs. and is now for sale.
My 8 yr old dearly wanted one and she has one; we all do. But she doesn’t see it as something that needs to be ridden with frequency…we believe she sees it like dog or a cat, a pet per se. We have had to explain the cost difference to her and she is very smart so she understood full well. But I reconciled myself that if she didn’t want to ride – that was ok – but she says she wants to…so for safety reasons we have her riding our pony for now until she realizes the tremendous obligation we have.
I’ve experienced this with my son too! And it takes all of my self-control to not try to wrangle and wheedle him into having more of an interest.
Pax. Kimberly