What are the contents of child safety and first aid training?

After six years of child safety science training and contact with no less than 2,000 parents, early childhood education practitioners and school-age children, it can be said clearly that the current core of compliant child safety and first aid training is to set up content around the three logical layers of "pre-emptive prevention - emergency response - mentality building", and will not only teach the fragmented skills that are widely circulated on the Internet.

Many people sign up for the training first because of the practical first aid practice. This is also the core module of all trainings. They don't just talk about theory at the beginning, but practice with simulated props. When I was doing in-house training for a public kindergarten in Gongshu District, Hangzhou, a childcare aunt who had been working as a childcare aunt for 7 years said that she had learned the Heimlich maneuver through short videos. The last time I encountered a child with longan sticks, after patting his back for a long time, the stick got tighter. It was only after he was sent to the hospital that he realized that his technique was all wrong. Formal training will first teach you how to judge the risk. For example, not all coughs require Heimlich. Only when the child is completely unable to make a sound and has a blue face is the airway completely obstructed. Infants under 1 year old should alternately pat the back and press the chest, and only use abdominal thrusts after 1 year old. These details will not be mentioned at all in popular science. In addition, the treatment of common febrile convulsions, burns, bumps, pet bites, and drug misuse in children will be covered. For example, if you encounter a febrile convulsion, don’t insert chopsticks and don’t pinch people, lie on your side to prevent suffocation and wait for the convulsion to pass. After burns and scalds, shower with cold water for more than 15 minutes as soon as possible, and don’t apply toothpaste and soy sauce. There is currently controversy in the industry: Should cardiopulmonary resuscitation be taught in training for children under 12 years old? One group believes that children do not have enough upper limb strength and the compression depth cannot meet the requirements, which will easily delay treatment. They only need to teach them to dial 120 accurately and state their address clearly. ； The other group believes that if there are only children at the scene when an accident occurs, it is better to master the basic operations than to be at a loss. Different institutions will make choices based on their own course positioning.

First aid is a basic skill, and the fundamental purpose of training is to use it less often, so the proportion of front-end safety prevention content is actually higher than that of first aid. This is not just a slogan of "pay attention to safety", it is broken down into specific scenarios: in the home scenario, we will talk about how to check for drugs, sharp objects, sockets, and the risk of falling from high altitudes. When we provide parent-child training to the community, we will play a "find the danger" game, allowing parents and children to look for potential safety hazards at home together, which is much more memorable than just talking about knowledge points. ； Outdoor scenes cover anti-drowning, anti-lost, traffic safety, and anti-kidnapping, as well as anti-school bullying and anti-sexual assault content that have become increasingly popular in recent years. When teaching to lower grade children, we will use the "little vest rule" to tell them that the area covered by the vest and shorts cannot be touched by others, and children can understand it.

The last piece is easily overlooked, which is the construction of emergency mentality. Many parents usually talk about knowledge in a clear and logical manner, but when their children fall and get burned, they become so panicked and trembling on the spot that they can't even tell the 120 address clearly. We will add random simulation drills to our training. For example, randomly select a parent and give him a scene of "a child breaks his head in the park and bleeds" on the spot, forcing him to calm down and go through the process, from stopping the bleeding to reporting the location to sending to the hospital. After practicing once, he will not be confused the next time he encounters it. There are also different voices in this area: Some people think that doing emergency drills for children will scare them, but it will easily leave a psychological shadow. ； Some people also believe that when a simulated scene actually occurs, the child's stress response will be much better than that of one who has not been exposed to it at all. We usually adjust the intensity of the drill according to the age of the child, and younger children use a gamified method to do it, which will not be too realistic.

If you have been doing this for a long time, you will find that the training content is never fixed. When training for confinement nanny, there will be more content on newborn choking, umbilical cord care, and treatment of fever syndrome. When training for primary school physical education teachers, it will focus on the treatment of sports sprains, dislocations, and heat stroke. The core is to let everyone not search for half an hour on their mobile phones when something happens, but to make the right choice as soon as possible.