Featured Video: Mare Teaches Her Foal How to Jump

Parents are often teaching their children how to do things – going up and down stairs, riding a bike, how to swim and more. Children may be a little intimidated at first, resulting in the parent holding their hand (either literally or figuratively) as they learn the new skill.

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For this mare and her colt, it’s the same thing. After she jumps over a small wall, her colt looks on and wanders about, seemingly unsure of how to join his mother. Finally she comes back, steps over the wall and joins him. She takes him away from the wall, then shows him how to gather speed to scale the little wall. He copies her, and accomplishes the task as if he’d done it many times before. We’re sure this mother was proud of her colt.

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Cari Jorgensen is a web content specialist who is also an adjunct professor of English at Santa Ana College.

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Marion says:

September 17, 2015 at 6:55 am

What a good mommy, going and getting her son! You can do this honey!
Anne says:

September 21, 2015 at 5:31 am

Good Mommy, but the little guy could have gone around that cinder block wall? Guess he was never that way before.
Sherry says:

January 10, 2016 at 7:03 am

Good mom, poor little guy! He was so happy to be back with her!
Carol says:

April 8, 2016 at 6:38 am

Mom, Mom, help me I can't get to you!!! Good Mommy!