Updated April 24, 2007

Cost: $50.00 including babysitting Manual and a First Aid kit specifically set up for babysitter’s while on the job. Click here for dates

Purpose:

The purpose of the American Red Cross Babysitter’s Training course is to provide individuals, ages 11 to 15, with the information and skills necessary to provide safe and responsible care for children in the absence of parents or adult guardians. This training will help participants develop skills in five critical areas:

Ì Leadership

Ì Safety and Safe play

Ì Basic care

Ì First Aid

Ì Professionalism

Learning Objectives:

· Know how to use the Family Interview Form to gain information for a safe and responsible babysitting experience.

· Demonstrate using FIND Decision–Making Model to solve babysitting dilemmas.

· Recognize that there can be different correct solutions to a problem. The best solution depends on the babysitter’s experience and skills, as well as the situation.

· Identify safety–related problems and solutions for safety–related problems in the home and surrounding environment.

· Use the Babysitter’s Handbook to help identify ways to recognize, limit, and remove safety–related problems in the home and surrounding environment.

· Describe how germs can be transmitted among children.

· Know when hand washing is needed and why the babysitter’s hands and a child’s hands must be kept clean when babysitting.

· Know the babysitter’s role in guiding safe and responsible play.

· Know the importance of play for a child’s growth and development.

· Identify safe and unsafe toys for children at different developmental stages.

· Identify safe and unsafe play for children at different developmental stages.

· Know when to use disposable gloves while giving care.

· Understand how wearing disposable gloves while giving care prevents the transmission of germs.

· Learn how to properly dispose of used disposable gloves.

· Learn how to hold an infant.

· Learn how to use a bottle to feed an infant.

· Learn how to burp an infant after bottle–feeding.

· Learn how to diaper an infant or toddler.

· Recognize whom and when to call during different emergency situations.

· Analyze and distinguish between life–threatening and less serious emergencies.

· Learn the actions steps Check–Call–Care.

· Learn how to check a conscious and unconscious child.

· Recognize a breathing emergency in an infant or child.

· Learn proper care for a conscious and unconscious choking infant or child.

· Identify types of bleeding and wounds. (click here to see our babysitting first aid kit)

· Learn the steps to control bleeding.

· Use the appropriate First Aid Action Plans in the Babysitter’s Handbook.

· Identify appropriate work behaviors for babysitters.

· Assess abilities, limits and job preferences as a babysitter.

You will learn all of this and much more including unconscious choking during your Babysitting Training.