IMG_4130

In Person Class Details:

  • You will receive your manual in class
  • Certificates will be given after successful completion of the class.

The Babysitting course, refreshed and revised, now has a greater emphasis on First Aid skills. The Canadian Red Cross Babysitting course covers everything from managing difficult behaviours to essential content on leadership and professional conduct as a babysitter. Babysitting promises to deepen and enhance the responsibility that older youth feel when caring for younger children. This updated curriculum, complete with new science, also provides improved learning when it comes to giving the appropriate care in the event of an emergency.

Duration:
7-8 hrs

Prerequisite: Ages 11 to 15

Course Content

  • How to be responsible and demonstrate leadership
  • How to make good decisions and manage difficult behaviours
  • Information on children’s developmental stages, and specific strategies for each stage
  • How to feed, diaper, dress, and play with children and babies
  • How to recognize and prevent unsafe situations, make safe choices and promote safe behaviours
  • First aid skills
  • The business of babysitting

First Aid Content:

  • Check, Call, Care (includes phoning EMS/911)
  • Glove removal
  • Recovery position
  • Conscious choking (adult/child/baby/alone)
  • CPR (baby/child),
  • Illness,
  • Asthma (includes use of inhaler and spacer),
  • Anaphylaxis (includes use of EpiPen),
  • Poisoning,
  • Insect stings,
  • Wound care (i.e. minor cuts and scrapes, splinters, nosebleeds, bumps and bruises, life-threatening bleeding, burns),
  • Head, neck and back injuries, broken bones, seizures

Virtual/Online Classes

This course can be offered virtually (ie. Zoom) by request. We have taught several of these classes, and is a great option for those in remote regions, or in situations where in class training is not an option.

To see our current schedule, please click HERE.