Teaching Children to ride -

For everyone teaching 4-12 year olds at riding schools, clubs or at home

Learning to ride should be fun, progressive and constructive, but all too often children can be frightened or put off. Teaching them is not easy. Teaching Children to Ride offers advice, exercises, lesson plans, games and teaching tips designed to provide variety and sound instruction, plus a fund of innovative ideas for making learning to ride an enjoyable, worthwhile and satisfying experience, even for the very young.

Includes : advice on planning a lesson. teaching the basics starting and finishing lessons. mid-lesson breaks fun exercises for early lessons. trotting, using poles, cantering introducing jumping, advanced work for older children riding out, mounted games.

The author : Jane Wallace, a former international three-day event rider, is a well known author, respected trainer and mother of two pony-mad sons.

Reviews : 'A truly wonderfull book, full of inspirational, challenging ideas ... a MUST for anyone wanting their children to grow into riders that are good enough to enjoy and succeed in any area of riding.' LUCINDA GREEN, MBE