a sister asked if she should let her dd go to an amusement park with a friend, reminded me of a nice talk with Beau yesterday...............

amen and amen, from another fuddy duddy momma but I'm really old enouh to not care (44 :) ) , sister, I forget how old your youngins are but even though my oldest is 17 I wouldn't let her go and she would have no problem with that decision, my oldest son who is nearly 16 and trying to work out all this "growing up" stuff was asking the other day when I will feel comfortable letting them go places unattended, he wasn't questioning me just trying to sort things in his own mind, I used this illustration, he has a beautiful expensive TN walker stallion, the horses name is Dancer, he is 3 years old, which is young but still pretty nearly full grown, the horse is big (very), strong, and aggrasive but still also baby like sometimes, he is an absolutly beautiful show horse with no defects or scars my son loves him very much and paid for him with his own hard earned money, he built him a nice pen in the edge of the woods, Beau built this pen with his own hands and daddy's chain saw cutting th trees down for the rails, now on the other side of the fence is another stallion, a nice black quarter horse, staying here temporarily to service some mares, this one is also a stallion, not as big but older and more experienced, well every once in awhile Dancer and Black exchange threats over the fence, Dancer could get over the fence if he really put his mind to it, if they actually fought it would not be pretty and even if they didn't kill one another they would both surely be scarred for life, now I was sharing with my son the other day about the srtong fence he put up for Dancer and how it was more for his protection than to keep him penned in, and how that even though it would be dangerous that if Dancer and any stallion ever got into a fight that Beau would probably risk his own life to stop them because he didn't want Dancer getting hurt or scarred up, I shared with my dear son how much I love him and that it wasn't that I didn't trust him but rather that it was those things "outside the fenc" that would try to scar him, and I asked him, so, tell me at what age will you stop caring so much that you would try to protect Dancer, as long as there are threats outside the fence I will care, until he builds his own family it is my joy and honor, anyway you get the point, love to all

here is a picture of my son and his Dancer check his blog, http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/leatherhorses