What are the topics in child safety and first aid training?

The topics of the children's safety and first aid training are designed around the two core designs of "preventing risks beforehand and dealing with dangers before they happen". They are mainly divided into two major directions: scenario-based topic selection during the training session and assessment questions after participating in the training. All of the topics are anchored in risk scenarios that children frequently encounter in their daily lives, and there are very few outlandish questions that are out of touch with reality.

I have been doing community child safety education for four years, and have conducted more than 30 trainings in kindergartens, primary schools, and parent-child communities. The questions I have seen are very down-to-earth, and they are not at all the dry knowledge points asked in books. Last year, we conducted training for middle class parents in the district public park. Our opening topic was "My child has stuck in his throat after eating longan. You patted his back twice but it didn't come out. The child has already started to roll his eyes. What do you do next?" ”At that time, there were more than 20 parents in the audience, half of them said to call 120 immediately, and two said to dig their throats, but none of them said to do Heimlich. They started with this question. When the operation was explained later, everyone raised their heads to listen, and no one lowered their heads to check their mobile phones.

What’s interesting is that the industry now has different views on the direction of setting questions. Academic lecturers prefer to give theoretical questions first, such as “Graduation Standards for Children’s Burns and Scalds” and “Five Points of the Heimlich Maneuver.” They feel that a solid foundation will prevent mistakes, and the operations taught to everyone will be more standardized.； But most of our front-line training staff tend to ask questions in all scenarios, such as "My child is at home during the summer vacation. I dug out my grandpa's antihypertensive medicine and ate half of the bottle. You only have light salt water and a spoon in your hand. Should you induce vomiting first and then send him to the hospital?" ”There is no absolute standard answer to this kind of problem, but it is all a problem that parents may encounter. It doesn't matter even if everyone has their own opinions and quarrels during the discussion. Finally, the correct handling steps are broken down, and everyone will remember it ten times better than memorizing the knowledge points.

The topics for different groups of people are also very different. When training young children, the topics are all gamified. For example, we often give "Finding Dangerous Little Monsters". We give a panoramic view of the living room and ask the children to circle the glass slag on the ground, the hot water bottle on the table, and the power strip at the wall. This kind of "dangerous little monster" was doing activities in Puhui Garden last week. When a child came home, he actually pointed to the hot water bottle on the edge of the coffee table and told his grandma that it was a monster and that it should not be placed here. The grandma was shocked and said that it was no use how many times she had to put the hot water bottle in. She remembered it after one game. For children in the middle and upper grades of primary school, the questions will include some emergency response and self-protection content, such as "You find that your classmate accidentally touched a fallen wire and got an electric shock. What is your first step?" ”“Someone claiming to be your mother's colleague comes to pick you up. If he can tell you your name and the name of your neighborhood, will you follow him? ”.

Nowadays, in formal certification-based assessments, such as the children’s first aid certificate for preschool education, the proportion of practical questions is basically more than 70%. In the last assessment when I was an assistant examiner, the last big question was to simulate an emergency scene that took ten minutes between classes: three children were running Breaking the forehead and bleeding, eating a lollipop stuck in the throat and choking, squatting on the edge and crying without being injured, let the participating teachers deal with it in order. Many old and kindergarten teachers who have been working for almost ten years have fallen into this situation. They subconsciously go to the crying child first, completely forgetting that the golden first aid time for a child with a stuck throat is only 4 minutes.

In fact, no matter how these questions are changed, the essence is so that everyone will not panic when something happens. After all, for ordinary parents and early childhood educators, if these knowledge points can be used once, all the training time is worth it.