Bring Your Manners To Work Day 2024 is on Thursday, September 5, 2024: Survey : Is it about time manners and respect were taught in school ?

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manners begin at home from day dot. families rely on the television to bring up kids. my children are 14. 13 and 9, and they know that they do not cross the line with us. we are not ultra strict, but they are our responsibilty. they bring no trouble to the door and touch wood never will. if they do not tidy their rooms or do homework then they get no pocket money. it saddens me to see kids as young as 3 running the streets being rude to people because the parents can't be bothered. society is going to hell in a handbasket because these people are allowed to breed. where you live has nothing to do with how you bring your kids up it comes to whether you can be bothered or not.

Should we bring back DDT?

The problem with DDT in lab tests was that if the spray on 24 bushels of apples were consumed in a day, as was the case with the lab rats, you would develop cancer.

I'm thinking, if you ate 24 bushels of apples in a day, you've got such an immediate fiber overload problem that you won't have to wait for the cancer to develop!

When they took it off the market, they replaced it with 5 chemicals - 3 of which I'm allergic to - so I can never eat thin-skinned fruit from the U.S. without playing some sort of allergy roulette.

I'm sure if they brought it back, they could improve the distribution methods, as well. We need not spray DDT in the same manner they did 30 years ago, with some poor farmer inhaling fumes daily.

But hey, how about that malathion spray they do in Massachusetts and California to prevent encephalitis? In CA in the early 90's when I lived there, they would report on the news that they were going to spray at 7:00 so move your cars inside for the night. It eats the paint off of cars. But what does it do to your LUNGS???

A horse and manners!?

I agree with a few points of the first poster, but would go about it a different and easier way. Firstly, your horse needs some dedicated work and what you're doing is potentially dangerous. Mostly for you. It doesn't take a whole lot on your part, but you should do it every day if at all possible. Horses learn through repetition. If you do things sporadically, then they won't be able to learn well if at all. If you do it every day for 5 days, then you can go back several weeks later and while they'll be rusty they should pick up the lesson again fairly quickly.

To teach him to stand quietly for the farrier and pick up his feet you'll need a few tools in your tool box. You use your tools to fix him when he goes astray. The first is you'll need to be able to lunge him and get his feet moving as well as changing direction smoothly. What that tool does is that every time he won't stand still, acts up, etc... you put his feet to work. The more/harder/quicker you move his feet and the more changes of direction you get, the more he'll decide he can train you to leave him alone by standing stock still. I use this to teach my horses I want them to stop and relax when they are scared. They learn to apply this in most situation. They find a release in stopping and relaxing.

Then to teach him to pick his feet up, it's not hard, but you spend a lot of little session. You don't need to spend more than 5 minutes or less handling him, but you should do it many times. You cand do it several times a day or once a day, but you should do it for 5 days straight at a time. I woulnd't tie him up, because you can't make him move his feet if he's tied up. I start with the left front foot. Put your lead rope over your left elbow from the top. You can throw the excess over his back or wherever. What this does is allow you to free up both hands. If he starts to move off, you just move your left arm over and down as it's sliding over your arm and it's in your hand. Use your left hand and grab his chestnut between your thumb and fore finger. The chestnut is the little knob on the inside of the front legs. If he has an excess of it, you can put something like baby oil on it and the next day it should just peel off. Anyway, you grab the sides. Pinch it. Then you can twist it. It doens't hurt. The equivilent is doing the same thing to the skin on your elbow. It takes a lot of twisting to even feel it. You'd be surprised at how hard you may have to crank it to get him to react. You just hold out. You are looking for any starting point. Begin by releasing all pressure when he shifts his weight off of that foot slightly. Immediatly release when he does. Rub up and down the leg to rub it away and show him you won't cue him everytime you touch his leg. Repeat. Keep asking for a little more each time. Once he picks his foot all the way off the ground, you can catch it in your right hand and lift it by the ankle. Just lift it up and then drop it. Rub his leg down. The point is to build slowly, don't ask him to pick it up for a trim and shoe before it's set down. Keep practicing till you can pick it up and hold it for 4-5 seconds. When you can, then I grab the toe in my left hand. If the horse starts pumping his leg, let him. You can't fight him. If he fights too hard, then let him have it, but immediately ask for it back. If he lets you hold it, then drop it and reward him by rubbing the leg down and then patting his neck. Just leaving his leg alone is a reward for him.

If he leans on you, you should just drop the foot. You can't hold him up and it's a bad habit he has. The reason I always drop the foot is to teach them to be responsible for their own feet. If he leans on you and you suddenly let go, dropping his support out from under him, he may stubble or even fall on his big butt. He'll be fine, but will learn not to do it anymore. If they've behaved, I don't just suddenly drop them. I'll let them down a little and then release. That way they know it's coming. The back feet are the same, just using the hock, the cap of their back knee.

Make sure your horse is not sensitive to you messing around his legs and isn't going to kick you. If he fights you too much and pulls away, just make him move his feet. I don't have room here to teach you how to do this in any more detail or teach you to lunge, but you can contact me for further info. Keep in mind that you can work on one foot a day or you can just pick each leg up once per session. The key is to ask for a little more each session. Either a better pick up or a longer hold. Good luck and please feel free to contact me for more. I'm just out of room to type.