Sample essay on safety and first aid for preschool children

As a kindergarten teacher with 6 years of front-line teaching experience, I have a very clear core understanding of preschool children’s safety and first aid: safety protection should always be placed before education. “Prevention is better than rescue, and knowing how to rescue and compensate for prevention” is the basic principle. There is no 100% risk-free environment. Only a protective network coordinated by home, kindergarten, and community, plus standardized first aid operations in different scenarios, can minimize the probability of children being harmed.

To be honest, when I first took charge of the class, I thought that everything would be fine if I took away all the sharp objects and put anti-collision strips on the corners of the tables. It wasn’t until the incident last spring that gave me a big wake-up call. At that time, the middle class was eating jelly for extra meals. One child laughed and choked while eating. The teacher's first reaction was to reach out and slap her on the back. The young girl who had just been an intern pulled her and said, "It is said on the Internet that the Heimlich maneuver is used. Patting the foreign object on the back will penetrate deeper." The two of them froze on the spot. I leaned over to see that the child was still coughing, and although his face was red, he could breathe. I didn’t touch him, but squatted next to him and guided him to cough vigorously. Within half a minute, he coughed out the broken jelly. Later, I looked through the information and discovered that these two treatment ideas actually correspond to different schools of first aid: the Children's First Aid Guide of the Red Cross Society of China clearly requires that as long as the child can cough and make sounds on his own, priority should be given to encouraging the child to expel foreign bodies on his own. Blind use of Heimlich may cause rib contusions and foreign bodies to shift and block the trachea. ； The American Heart Association's pediatric first aid standards recommend that as long as there are clear signs of foreign body obstruction, early intervention can be performed. There is no absolute right or wrong. The core is to judge the child's status first, rather than applying formulas.

When it comes to judging the status, many people have misunderstandings about the safety protection of preschool children. They either think that all risks must be eliminated, and even scissors and pebbles are not allowed to be touched, or they think that it is okay for children to be rough and that bumps and bumps are normal. When I attended a Montessori education exchange meeting before, some teachers proposed that children should be properly exposed to "controllable risks," such as using a real fruit knife to cut soft fruits and receiving hot water by themselves, so that they can build a true awareness of safety. I am a compromise between both sides. I never put away the safety scissors in the art area, but I teach you how to hold them every time before using them. I arrange for the teacher to keep an eye on them. Don’t panic if I cut my finger. I raise my arm first and apply pressure to stop the bleeding. I rinse it with running water and then apply a sterile dressing. Last time, a child cut his finger and cried for two minutes before holding up his finger to show off to other children, "I know I have to raise my hand first when I cut my hand." It is more useful than giving ten safety lessons. However, there is a bottom line here that I have never relaxed: the risks that may cause irreversible harm, such as not placing small stools on the balcony, covering all power sockets with protective covers, and resolutely not allowing high-risk choking foods such as nut jelly into the park, there is no room for negotiation.

I participated in a preschool education safety training in the district a while ago, and the teacher showed me a case that still makes my back shiver when I think about it: A 3-year-old child choked on eating a whole peanut at home. The old man didn't know how to deal with it, so after patting his back for a long time, the peanut got stuck in the main trachea. When he was sent to the hospital, he had suffered from hypoxia and brain damage, and the good child became a vegetative state. It was also during that training that I learned that many of the folkloric first aid methods can really kill people: applying toothpaste or soy sauce to burns will contaminate the wound and deepen it, and the child will have to suffer for several days while the doctor cleans it. ； A child falls and hits his head. If there is no bleeding, he thinks it is fine. As a result, the treatment time for intracranial hemorrhage is delayed. ； Some parents see their children develop rashes due to allergies, so they just apply some rashes on the dermatitis and ignore it. Little do they know that laryngeal edema caused by severe allergies can kill their children in ten minutes. I now send out reminders about first aid misunderstandings in the parent group every month, and I also encounter parents who say, "This is what happened to me when I was a child, and it's okay." I don't know how to be tough, so I send training cases. Most parents can understand. After all, no one wants to gamble with their children.

The longer I work in this business, the more I feel that safety is not a perfect score. There was a kid last week. I made a point of remembering that he was allergic to mangoes, but my grandma secretly stuffed him with dried mangoes and put them in his pocket. Fortunately, I saw him when he took them out to eat during class. The corners of his mouth were just a little red. I applied some calamine and it was fine. Now I'm scared to think about it. I still have the emergency telephone number and the contact information of the health care provider in the park on the lock screen of my mobile phone. I always keep sterile gauze, iodophor cotton pads, and a wrinkled Heimlich maneuver card in my bag. I take it out and take a look at it when I have time. To be honest, as kindergarten teachers, we are, to put it nicely, our children's first teachers. To put it bluntly, we must first be a gatekeeper. Pay more attention, learn more reliable first aid knowledge, don't blindly believe in folk remedies on the Internet, and don't be overly nervous. Children will suffer less, and parents can be more at ease. It's as simple as that.