Description
Barn Rules: Companion to the Brown Pony Series
Rebecca Cook. Although Barn Rules is a companion booklet in the Brown Pony Series, it was written with a much broader audience in mind: parents and grandparents desiring a safe horse experience for kids; 4-H leaders; lesson instructors; horse camps; therapeutic equine assisted activity programs; mental health professionals offering equine learning or psychotherapy; therapists offering hippotherapy; horse lovers; and new horse owners. The barn rules cover what to do, what not to do, and why. The first section of each chapter offers background information on the highlighted rule, then summarizes the information using Scripting (the author’s form of Social Stories™), and finishes with an original art poster depicting the rule with a YES icon or a NO icon and two or three sentences of explanation. There are rules that cover, for example, what to wear and what not to wear, how to behave around horses, and to wait for permission for various horse activities. The book ends with two bonus pages of the entire art collection of rules, The print version can be cut out, laminated and used as Picture Communication Cards for horse games, as a visual aid during barn orientation, or for children with autism. This book is a great tool for riding instructors to use during the first visit with clients and for horse owners to share with friends and family who are interested in riding.