Last weekend I had a 9yr old come for his 2nd lesson; he’d learnt to ride in L1 and had been amazed that he could do it; around and around he rode; stopping, starting using gears. Upon arriving at lesson 2, his dad had told me that in between lessons the he and his son gone to the local park to do some riding practise; the dad told me that the practise didn’t start well, and the son got very down about this and started to spiral his thoughts ‘I can’t; it’s not going to work’. In the park, the…