The American Red Cross Babysitter’s Training r.25 program is designed to prepare youth ages 11-16 to safely and confidently care for children and infants. It includes hands-on activities, videos, and discussions to develop essential, real-life readiness babysitting skills. The course covers feeding, diapering, picking up and holding children, safety, and emergency response. This program offers Babysitter’s Training in the classroom.
Length
Babysitter’s Training: 4 hours and 50 minutes, excluding breaks Babysitter’s Training with Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED: 7 hours and 10 minutes, excluding breaks
After completing Babysitter’s Training participants should be able to:
▪ Discuss the basics of leadership and responsibility.
▪ Explore the four leadership styles that are helpful in babysitting.
▪ Apply the three-step Decision-Making Model to babysitting scenarios.
▪ Review what issues they should discuss with their own parent or guardian before starting out as a babysitter.
▪ Assess their own abilities, limits and preferences as babysitters.
▪ Use safe and appropriate techniques for finding babysitting jobs.
▪ Establish good business practices and professional work behaviors for babysitting.
▪ Determine the different options available for babysitters to market themselves.
▪ Explain the importance of interviewing clients to help ensure a positive babysitting experience for everyone.
▪ Understand how to use the Family Interview Form to gather basic information about the family.
▪ Understand and demonstrate the ability to take responsibility for ensuring safety while babysitting.
▪ Understand safety concerning the internet, social media and friendly visitors or strangers.
▪ Identify various hazards in and around the home.
▪ Understand how to prevent, recognize and fix safety-related problems to create a safer environment.
▪ Understand the importance of emergency plans.
▪ Understand how to stay safe during bad weather or a natural event.
▪ Understand how to prevent fires and what to do if there is a fire emergency.
▪ Understand how to prevent drownings and what to do if there is a water emergency.
▪ Explain how the stages, ages and milestones influence basic child care practices.
▪ Demonstrate how to pick up and hold an infant and toddler.
▪ Demonstrate how to bottle-feed an infant.
▪ Demonstrate how to spoon-feed an infant and toddler.
▪ Demonstrate how to diaper an infant or toddler.
▪ Explain the importance of bedtime routines and sleep safety.
▪ Identify which behaviors to expect from children and infants based on their ages and developmental stages.
▪ Describe the importance of play on growth and development.
▪ Identify age-appropriate toys and activities.
▪ Identify appropriate techniques to encourage positive behavior, provide positive reinforcement and correct misbehavior.
▪ Review what to do when feeling stressed or overwhelmed.
▪ Describe how to recognize an emergency and gain confidence to act.
▪ Explain how to lower the risk for infection when giving care, including proper handwashing and glove removal.
▪ Demonstrate how to properly remove latex-free disposable gloves.
▪ Understand legal concepts as they apply to lay responders, such as consent.
▪ Describe the emergency action steps: CHECK—CALL—CARE.
▪ Identify when it is necessary to call 9-1-1 or the designated emergency number.
▪ Explain how to check an injured or ill person who appears to be unresponsive.
▪ Explain how to check a responsive injured or ill person.
▪ Demonstrate first aid care for a person who is choking.
▪ Demonstrate direct pressure to control life-threatening bleeding c Training with First Aid/CPR/AED,
Babysitter’s Training with First Aid/CPR/AED, participants should be able to:
▪ Demonstrate high-quality CPR and use of an AED for a person who is in cardiac arrest.
▪ Recognize and describe first aid care for sudden illnesses: asthma attack, anaphylaxis, diabetic emergency, sickle
cell crisis, seizures, opioid overdose, shock and stroke.
▪ Recognize and describe first aid care for the injuries and environmental emergencies: burns, head, neck and
spinal injuries (including concussion), exertional hypothermia/heat stroke, hypothermia and poison exposure.
The Babysitter’s Training courses are modular. They combine lessons on babysitting topics such as leadership, decision making, the business of babysitting, safety, basic child care, play and behavior management with first aid, CPR and AED topics, depending on the course being taught. This approach ensures that you can always use the latest First Aid/CPR/AED materials based on the most current science to teach the relevant first aid, CPR and AED topics.
Babysitter’s Training with Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED includes topics covered in the Babysitter’s Training program, plus:
▪ Pediatric CPR/AED
▪ Sudden Illness
▪ Injuries and Environmental Illness
Certification Requirements
▪ Actively participate in all course activities.
▪ Demonstrate competency in all required skills.
For Babysitter’s Training with First Aid/CPR/AED
▪ Attend the full in-person session
▪ Pass all required assessment scenarios (as outlined in the relevant First Aid/CPR/AED lesson plan).
Certificate Issued and Validity Period
Upon meeting the criteria for course completion and demonstration of competency, participants in the following
courses will receive:
Babysitter’s Training:
▪ American Red Cross Babysitter’s Training certification. Valid for 10 years.
Babysitter’s Training with Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED:
▪ American Red Cross Babysitter’s Training certification. Valid for 10 years.
▪ American Red Cross Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED certification. Valid for 2 years.
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