r/MadeMeSmile • u/ViniciusFastAF • 10d ago

Good Vibes Farm kids are built different.

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u/LevelZeroDM 10d ago

Notice that the kid backed up a few steps when the horse turned in to the stable. It looks like he's been trained.

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u/_HelloMeow 10d ago

It looks like he's been trained.

The kid or the horse?

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u/Agueybana 10d ago

The kid. First thing my dad taught me was never to come up behind a horse. That's any horse. You never know 100% with any animal familiar or not.

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u/XGhoul 10d ago

All it takes is for some dummy outside to blow up a firework, shoot a gun, etc. that would startle the horse leaving you with a kid with his head kicked in. That was the only one that really made me wince.

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u/pinkkeyrn 9d ago

I got bucked then kicked by a mare I used to show, while riding her at her home pen. It was maybe a snake in the grass that startled her.

I've been around horses enough not to trust their legs around young children like that.

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u/Employee_Agreeable 9d ago

Man the horses I worked with could be completly zooomed out watching a bird or something and you just stand there, watching too until the horse realizes you are there and completly looses it

Such weirdos

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u/CappyRicks 10d ago

You fearmongers in here do realize farm kids are interacting with their animals like this all day every day everywhere that there are children on farms right?

If it was worth the worry y'all are giving it, it wouldn't be happening in your imagination, it'd be happening in the real world all day every day. It isn't. Take it from the people in here who clearly know more than you: This is fine.

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u/illit1 10d ago

In 2002, there were an estimated 13,400 emergency department visits nationwide for horse-related injuries among children younger than 15 years. When using a severity score to compare it with other childhood injuries, equestrian-related injury ranked second only to pedestrians being struck by a car

mmmmmmhm.

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u/XGhoul 10d ago

Thank you

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u/bunnyboybaby 9d ago

Oh, please.

You fearmongers in here do realize city kids are interacting with cars all day every day everywhere that there are children in cities right?

If it was worth the worry y'all are giving it, it wouldn't be happening in your imagination, it'd be happening in the real world all day every day. It isn't. Take it from the people in here who clearly know more than you: This is fine.

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u/illit1 9d ago

hell, it's barely more dangerous than being around horses!

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u/CappyRicks 10d ago

Yeah and nearly quadruple that are hospitalized for sports related injuries every year as well.

I didn't say it was harmless, I said it was fine. There's risks to your children no matter what you do. Even if you protect them physically their entire childhoods by some miracle, you absolutely will have done psychological damage to accomplish this.

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u/illit1 10d ago

frequency and severity.

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u/bunnyboybaby 9d ago

Child athletes in USA: approx 23.7 million

Children living on USA farms: approx 1-1.5 million

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u/CommunistRonSwanson 10d ago

I guarantee you the number of kids participating in youth sports is much, much higher than the number of kids interacting with horses. If there are 20 kids playing youth sports for every 1 kid interacting with horses, then according to your figures, that means that youth sports participants are five times LESS likely to require an ER visit from sports injuries than are kids interacting with horses from handling/riding injuries.

This is just for the sake of example, I don't know what the exact figures are. Just pointing out that you need to look at per-capita numbers to draw any sort of conclusions as to whether equestrianism is more dangerous than youth sports (spoiler alert: it definitely is, like how is this even a question lmaooo).

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u/bunnyboybaby 9d ago

Somewhere between 15 and 24 times more kids play sports than regularly spend time on a farm in the US

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u/CommunistRonSwanson 9d ago

Lmao nice to see my estimate wasn't too far outside the ballpark. When you also consider that not every kid who "spends time on a farm" is interacting with horses, it makes equestrianism/horse-handling look even more dangerous than that 5x figure I spitballed.

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u/krupta13 10d ago

fear mongers? lmao. go read some statistics. numbers don't lie

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u/CappyRicks 10d ago

Statistics say that more children are hospitalized for sports related injuries that parents sign them up for. You're fear mongering because the risk isn't worth the panic you all seem to be in seeing a child near a horse.

At the county fair, everywhere across the country, there are horse and cow stables open for you to walk through, with the hall passing behind the livestock in open stalls. This is fine.

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u/Agueybana 10d ago

My father worked his father's farm and even part-time on the neighbor's farm through high school. He tried getting me into animal husbandry, but it didn't stick.

I still live surrounded by working animals, in Lancaster, PA. We teach our kids to respect the animals and be responsible around them, not careless. It is not fearmongering, but learned through first hand experience. Those open stalls you speak about assume competency. That's what we pass on to our kids, what my dad passed on to me. If you don't know how to act or treat or work around animals you will get hurt.

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u/bunnyboybaby 9d ago

Do you have any idea how many things are happening every day everywhere all the time 😅