Did your parents think it was a "phase" ?

Question

That you would grow out of.

What do they think now ?

Answer 1

My Mom probably thought that but leave it up to Dad to actually let me follow through with it. Now 3 horses and 10 years later they know for sure its not a phase.

Answer 2

Every little girl wants her pony.

My parents thought that from when I was 3 until I was around 12. Once I got my horse (and eventually plural), they realized that it wasn't a phase. I think I've actually grown out of it a bit, but once you're bitten by the horse bug.... you're always going to love the horse.

I think every parent prays that it's just a phase. Even though they know, in the back of their minds, that it's not. They figure that they can get you over your love of horses by giving you lessons and showing you how much work is involved. It never really works, huh?

redial - I had the same problem. Nobody would let me try my hand at steer riding at the youth rodeo I was involved in. I was really good on the practice dummy, but nobody would let me on anything living.

Answer 3

From 9 (now 48) my mother said I would...yeah right.

She saw me ride for the first time ever!!! 2 years ago!

She has never showed any interest what so ever in my horses or in my achievements. Bless her!

She puts my success in what I do (Equine Reiki Mater Teacher/Practitioner) down to her "good genies"but doesn't have the first clue as to what it is I do......

I've tried but there comes a time when enough is enough.

Answer 4

My mum prayed it wasn't. She was a jockey and now pony club instructor so all she ever wanted was for me to at least have the tiniest amount of interest. I only said once that i wouldn't mind riding lessons and bang, booked in at local riding school the following day.  Dad's wallet never looked healthy after that!!!

Answer 5

No, if anything it was the oposite for me. My Dad knew I was going to be around horses forever... And I had my own ideas in my teen years... Got my self a little trouble. At the end of it, he was right!LOL!!

Answer 6

Lol - yes ( in fact I think most of my family still thinks it is)

I didn't get to ride at all till I was about 10 and that was because I harassed a perfect stranger into teaching me to ride on her horses. I did get "real" lessons after that but I think it was more a way of keeping the kids busy !

My Dad died before I got my first horse so he never knew how far that phase was going.

Answer 7

my parents STILL do!!  I've been riding for 8 years and I'm never ever ever never ever stopping (even though i sound like a little kid XD)

but no,  my parents are expecting my to stop with horses after high school and get a business degree or something crazy like that!  i keep telling them i wanna be a horse trainer but they're still hoping I'll stop and we'll have money again =P

o well, they're stuck with my and my ponies [=

but they're good about it, they support me as much as they can-even if it means driving me to the barn to work.. they come and watch all my lessons, and are interested in horses even if they don't really care.

so i guess you could call it an age 11-to age death phase?!

Answer 8

Nope! My mom always had horses and hoped and prayed I would never stop riding!

Answer 9

Yup, I started riding lessons at 5, and by the time I was 7 i was begging them for a horse (not that i hadn't before), i finally got one, but they still thought "its just a phase". Well I'm 15 now and I ride 6days a week, so I'm guessing it wasn't just a phase, and they don't think that anymore, because I have been riding for 10yrs and owning horses for 8 so it would be pretty hard to just drop it now.

Answer 10

i thought it was spelt fase lol..spell check agrees with you.

i think my parents worried although they were the ones that got me into it.....but i'm still not allowed to do "the mans riding" at rodeos......growl

Answer 11

My parents think is a phase, It seems like if your parents are horsey then they'll understand that its not a phase, but unfortunatley if they arent (mine are non-horsey) they think (or hope) its a phase.  :) this phase is gonna last forever though :)

Answer 12

my mum did and two years later still does think its a phase but my dad has believed in me the whole time.

Answer 13

Yes.  I was made to wait until I was 10 for my own pony and carried on with them until I was 27 when worsening arthritis in the spine and family circumstances forced me to give up.  I still dream about riding and still have a healthy interest in them even now I am 45!

With some kids it is a phase - their interest wanes when they realise it is not all about glamour etc.  You do have to work hard and get your hands dirty!

Answer 14

my parents are very horsey as the are show judges and also hunt and event there homebred horses! i caught the horse bug when i was only 2! i could ride before i could walk. Ever since i was little i'v had more than 1 pony going at any given time, and since i was 12 iv had 3 or 4 going at any one time. I now ride and compete all our horses, as wel as break in our homebred stock. They love it now that they can take a back seat, watch me do all the hard work (+ a full day at college) and then they reap the rewards when their horses are winning! on the other hand, they pushed my brothers into the horse world and they have never stepped foot on a yard in 10 years!!! once youv caught the bug theres no going back. although, as you get older, it gets more expensive because you wont the best of everything, of which i never had because im no spoilt brat. But what really anoys me is parents who buy there kids a push button show pony, that will win everywer when the family doesnt know a thing about horses, and then theirs otha ppl who have ridden all their lives, worked their horses/ponies up through the grades and then just get laughed at!

Answer 15

I think they knew better!  Now Dad is so proud of me and they are happy I stuck with it.

Answer 16

Yes, they thought it was a phase. I'm almost 50 now. I still don't have a horse, but I still REALLY want one.

Answer 17

Nope they never did. My parent's were born and raised around horse and so was I. I was never unintrested in horses. When my dad took me to my first(I was 2) rodeo and when those Barrel racers came out I said "Daddy I want to do that." He said ok I'll start training you next year. So he did and that's when I got my first horse. I started competing in barrels at the age of 5  and pole bending at 6. And it's still my love today.

Now we have 6 horses and 2 are mine. But we have to sell one. =[

Answer 18

yes, my parents did..i mean after all every little girl's dream is to have a pony

after i had been doing riding lessons for 11 years my parents realized that horse riding was in my blood, that is was my life and a huge passion.

they bought me my first horse 3 and a half years ago, and i have been to ride, groom muck out.....every single day, even the day that i had been in hospital for an operation on my mouth, i went down to the yard then.

yeah, my parents have realized that i am totally serious about horses now, and they are proud that i have looked after him so well, they say his condition has been perfect for three years and his sweet itch in now improving-with a LOT of hard work and money, i am getting nearer to making summer, spring and autumn bearable for him

Answer 19

My parents thought it was a phase.  They were really upset when I bought an actual horse!  They are still afraid I'm going to get hurt and they thought it was a waste of money but they are growing to accept it. They do not mind as much.

Answer 20

Not at all. My parents were country born who moved to the city. I lived there until about 7, when we moved to the farm. 90% of my memories are on the farm (we've been here about 8 years now). My parents love horses... and luckily we can afford them, so, no, it was never a phase for me, it's more of a lifestyle. I don't know what I would do without my equine buddies.

Answer 21

Dad 1/2 thinks its a phase and Mom doesn't think of it as a phase anymore.

I think my parents(dad mostly) really don't know what to think about my interest in horses. Actually just a few days ago my brother asked me why I liked horses so much! My dad thinks its neat or in his words to my mom "she looks cute when she rides" lol. Hes fine with it as long as I pay for lessons out of my pocket. My mom enjoys watching and comes every week; Dad came only a few times though. Mom knows I really want a horse and dad doesn't have a clue but I know what he would say. )=...

Answer 22

NEVER!  My mom was a horse trainer and every since I was a baby, they saw my love of horses.  Even now that I own my own horses and I compete, I still want to stop and pet every horse I walk by or look inside every trailer I drive by(I'm 14! shhh!). No sirree.  Horses will never grow out of me...They can't because they are part of me and simply cannot be taken out of me!

Answer 23

They are still waiting for me to grow out of it. Never going to happen though.

Answer 24

My mom actually said that to me the other day. I started riding when I was 5 because my friends did, my friends all stopped but I've been riding for 13 years now. I made my mom come and watch me ride because I was taking the horse I trained in green hunter. Later on that day I was telling my mom about another show and she was like "oh boy look what I started, I thought that you would grow out of this eventually". LOL (:

Answer 25

Horses are all that and a bag of chips. ( or carrots) NEVER GONNA LEAVE THAT PHASE !

Answer 26

My parents worried some what that it would be just a phase, but when I started blowing off guys to go see my horse they knew unfortunately for them lol that it was no phase.

It was and all ways be a life time love.

Now they just do their best to support me by going to shows and helping out. The family has started to enjoy the horses now too.