Girls and horses

No theories, as both me and my brother were crazy about horses, and he's the one who ended up working with them :-) I still have a horse, and no, there's not a boys at the stable. I wish there were, as I prefer mixed gender groups, with only girls/women there's a lot of cliques etc. and with only boys/men it's maybe a bit too buff.

Hi I was wonce a little girl and at a certain age I started loving horses. I alway thought It had to do with the fact that my dad was not a strong parent and I wanted him to be. This is the pyscological reason I was told. I have found this to be true of many families where the father is not a strong parent and there are little girls in the family. Some girls look to their mother and some to their father to lead the family. Horses are strong leaders. Beautiful creatures. I'm not saying this is true or anything. I was told this.

i do not have a daughter in that age group, but i have a neice that is ten and she is not obessed with horses, i mean she likes them but there are other things she likes more then horses. i know it's not much help, sorry.

I have a daughter who is 28 now but I can still remember her when she was 7 - 12 years old. She did like horses and my husband and I picked one out for her and purchased it. We chose a big, gentle appaloosa mare named Moonie. My daughter liked riding her and sometimes we would ride as a family. But she did not like taking care of her own horse, she never learned how to saddle her horse and she didn't sit in Moonie's corral and read books or just talk to her. She very rarely fed her own horse either. She didn't READ every horse book that she could find and she didn't ask us to BUY her horse books, she didn't draw horse pictures, she didn't send off for breed information from all the different horse breed registries, she didn't collect horse statues, she didn't cut out horse pictures from magazines or other sources and put them together in scrap books. We ended up taking her horse away from her and she didn't really mind. And she wasn't pretending not to mind either, she really didn't have any strong attachment to her horse or any of the other horses either. So, what happened to Moonie, the big Appaloosa mare? Moonie got a new owner, an adult who really loved her. An adult that liked taking care of her, one that groomed her regularly [even bathed her], one who rode her 3 and 4 days a week on one to four hour long rides [rides both alone with no other horses or people, just the two of them and then other rides with other people on their horses], one that sat in a chair reading a book in the corral with Moonie, one that fed her most of her meals, an owner who was always looking for a pretty saddle blanket or halter or bridle headstall that would make Moonie look prettier, one that checked into the different feeds and feed supplements to see what would keep Moonie the healthiest, and one whose heart was absolutely broken when Moonie had to be sold because of bad changes in life circumstances. That adult was ME! But I am an adult that did follow the pattern of horse obsession. I can't even remember the first time I felt the horse obsession but it was within the 7 to 12 year range and its all I really remember thinking about. Oh sure, sometimes a movie star or singer would interest me but I would just hang his poster next to the posters and pictures of all the horses. My interest in them would actually go away but the horses still stayed up. I never lost the horse obession feeling. If I could, I would have a horse now but finances and health don't permit. So I still collect horse books and horse figures. I read horse magazines and I still send off for information from different horse breed registries. I still love horses so much that here I am in mylot.com writing a post about it! I don't have a strong theory about why little girls, in general, love horses, just some stray thoughts. Some of my thoughts about the why of it though are that horses seem magical somehow, the ultimate romantic touch. If your knight in shining armor comes for you or fights for you, he's going to be riding a horse for sure! Then horses can symbolize freedom, running in the wind, your hair blowing, the horse's mane flowing as you race along. It's best on the beach for this image. Then there is the whole, your horse likes you the best, better than all other people and the two of you are a team, partners, true friends. The two of you share an emotional bond that is different than any other bond out there. Knowing a horse is a very special thing. I really wish that my daughter could have felt even half of what I felt and still feel for horses.