Everybody ought to have a pastime. In case you are considering mine has one thing to do with horses, you’d be partially proper. I do spend most of my time working with horses, writing about horses, speaking about horses, fascinated with horses, residing with horses. However I do have a pastime that solely partially revolves round horses. I write kids’s e book.

C.S. Lewis wrote: “After I was younger, I learn kids’s books in secret. After I was an grownup, I learn them brazenly and with pleasure.”

C.S. Lewis is in fact the writer of the Narnia books, so I’m in good firm. In case you are not acquainted with his kids’s books, you may have a deal with in retailer for you.

After I was three years outdated, my dad and mom learn “The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe” to me for the primary time. JRR Tolkein’s “The Hobbit” was learn to me once I was 4.

These books had a robust affect on my life. Simply the truth that I keep in mind listening to those tales once I was so very younger reveals you the affect that that they had.

After I discuss horse coaching, I say that every one coaching strategies are made up of three layers. There may be the underlying perception system, the guiding rules and the strategies we selected. After I describe the core moral perception system that guides my coaching, I say to folks: “I learn ‘Black Magnificence‘ once I was little, and I cried when Ginger died.” In the case of horses, I’m unashamedly sentimental.

I’d have been six or seven once I encountered ‘Black Magnificence’ for the primary time. So earlier than there was Ginger, there was Narnia.

These days everybody is aware of about Center Earth, however once I encountered C.S. Lewis and JRR Tolkien, that was years earlier than they have been extensively identified within the US. Each fall my dad and mom would get the youngsters’s catalog from Blackwells Bookstore in Oxford England.

In October we might spend days pouring over the catalog and select the books we needed for Christmas. In December a carton would arrive from Blackwells containing the books we had chosen.

Ordering from Blackwells meant we had many books years earlier than they have been extensively identified within the US. It’s exhausting to think about it now, however rising up, I used to be the one particular person in my class who knew about hobbits.

My favourite books have been stuffed with magic. I needed books that might take me to Narnia and Center Earth. In fact, I liked the Paddington books and was charmed by Winnie the Pooh. There was additionally ‘Inexperienced Smoke‘, and ‘The Kids of Inexperienced Knowe‘, to call only a few of my favorites.

There have been by no means sufficient of those books to fulfill so I beginning writing my very own. I write the form of tales I’d have loved studying as a baby. The magic is actual, the animals have voices, and fauns and dragons do exist.

Why am I writing about this? You understand me as a horse coach, and the writer of the clicker coaching books. That’s been my focus for thirty plus years. I need horse-friendly, variety, caring, compassionate coaching to change into the norm within the horse world.

The trail that put me on an interception course with clicker coaching started once I was three years outdated and I discovered my strategy to Narnia for the primary time. The youngsters’s books that I most liked have very a lot formed the particular person I’m at the moment. They taught me necessary values. I learn ‘Black Magnificence‘ once I was little and I cried when Ginger died.

The trail that kids books put me on led to the writing of “Clicker Coaching in your Horse” and my different books on clicker coaching.

These coaching books have had a serious affect within the horse world. They supply a substitute for the force-based, “present them you’re the boss” coaching that’s so prevalent all through the horse world. Folks throughout the planet at the moment are utilizing clicker coaching. They’re recognizing that you just don’t must “hit tougher” to get horses to hearken to you. In actual fact, once you cease hitting them, they hearken to you a lot extra.

I’ve been listening to my horses, and they’re telling me it’s time to share the youngsters’s books I’ve written. They’re stuffed with love and loyalty. These are necessary classes to study to hold ahead right into a life stuffed with horses.

I hope you’re curious and also you wish to know extra. I’m going to make you wait till tomorrow to unwrap my new e book!

Coming tomorrow: Extra Particulars!