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[quote=Anonymous]I can't hold myself out as some big expert because we are smack in the middle of this as well, but here's our deal. DD, 8, has been riding off and on for 2.5 years. We started at a local riding academy (not in DC), but it moved about an hour away, so we stopped lessons and honestly DH and I hoped it would all go away. NOPE. DD kept begging and with covid, we gave in because she really needed something to be excited about. She is completely and totally obsessed with her lessons, horses, the whole thing. (And yes we have a dog to the PP.) I hate how dangerous it is and DH hates how expensive it is (we pay $65/hr for private lessons once a week) but it truly brings her joy. She is now with one of her former instructors from the academy who is a hunter-jumper and runs the local hounds chapter and has taught a million kids to ride - basically they go on trail rides once a week and DD is learning all the basics. She has shown zero interest in competition etc and I hope it stays that way, but we're going to let her keep doing this unless it comes to a head in some way: cost, time, conflict with her dance, etc. I don't have any clear answers but I think what we have figured out is just to take it one step at a time since she is still so young and something else could easily come along and replace it without us having to be the ones who forbade her to do something she loves. [/quote]

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