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A tip that will help you with any baby animal - don't let them get away with anything. Nibbling may be cute when they are little, but they turn into a big animal, no it stops being cute and ends up being dangerous.

I had a particularly sassy foal years ago. We got her a few months old as part of a mare/foal package. She was untouched up to that point. When we sold her as a yearling, she was halter broke, lead, tied, picked up her hooves, and could saddle and bridle her (never put weight on her of course). The new owners mentioned that when they went to break her, she took everything with ease. I had put that filly through everything I could think of and worked with her often, and it totally paid off for the new owners.

I haven't had a foal in years, but I trained my Pyrenees pup with the same mentality recently. He doesn't get away with anything. People comment on how he's 7 months old and doesn't bark, jump or destroy things. It's because I never let him get away with it as a little 25 pound fluff ball. Now that he's 62 pounds (and gaining 9 pounds a month), I'm not worried he'll jump on someone and bowl them over.

Of course shower them with all the love in the world, but rules are rules.