Because taking care of children is not child’s play

As a parent of young children, has your favorite babysitter taken the Red Cross Babysitters Course?

You are a teenager aged 11 or older and you have decided to become a babysitter; are you ready to take on this important responsibility? For example, do you know how to:

• • feed a baby or change a diaper?

• • prepare a simple meal?

• • play games with children of all ages?

• • prevent injuries and ensure children’s safety?

• • handle an emergency, if necessary?

A good babysitter knows all these things and more. Learning them can be easy and fun with the Red Cross’s Babysitter Aware course. The completely redesigned Babysitter Aware course is relevant to today’s youth.

Babysitting is the first job for many young teenagers, and the Red Cross can help them become real “pros”! The Babysitting Skills course will help them keep little ones safe by learning:

• • Important skills to know when caring for children.

• • Precautions to take with children of all ages.

• • Ways to cope with common problems, such as temper tantrums and crying.

• • Ways to react to events that make the goalkeeper uncomfortable.

• • Games and other ideas to have fun with the kids while babysitting them.

• • Ways to make children’s environment safe and pleasant.

• • The respective rights and responsibilities of guardians and the families who employ them.

What to do in an emergency?

Even the best goalkeepers sometimes face emergencies. The Babysitting in the Know course teaches them how to handle these emergencies by providing basic first aid skills for issues such as:

• • suffocation;

• • sprains and strains;

• • bleeding;

• • poisonings;

• • burns;

• • fire emergencies;

• • and more!

The completely redesigned Babysitting course is relevant to today’s youth. Course duration: 7.5 hours

Certification card for the advanced Babysitting course.