Our favourite babysitter! A two-part course for teenagers

Our favourite babysitter! A two-part course for teenagers

Featuring first aid for babysitters plus the ins and outs of looking after younger children.

By First Aid First Ltd

Date and time

Sunday, May 5 · 1:30 - 4:35pm NZST

Location

Nathan Homestead, one minute from the motorway offramp at Manurewa and only two minutes to the Botanic Gardens for some downtime for the parent taxi-drivers!

70 Hill Road Auckland, Auckland 2102 New Zealand

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About this event

  • 3 hours 5 minutes

Be the best babysitter you can be, and be the babysitter whom every family wants to book again!

This is a two-part course, designed for teenagers aged 13 - 18 years:

Part One: First Aid training for babysitters including CPR (practice with manikins), choke-rescue techniques (practice with manikins), coping with emergency situations such as burns, asthma, allergic reactions, poisonings, seizures, bangs on the head, broken bones, plus when to get help: phone the parents or phone an ambulance?

Part Two: Practical advice for babysitting including child safety and accident prevention, ideas for play, information about child development, and how to communicate well with children and their parents.

Everyone on the course receives a booklet to complement the explanations and demonstrations on the course. Participants also receive a certificate.

Each part is 80 minutes with a fifteen minute break in between.

Feedback for this course:

"My teenage daughter attended your excellent baby sitting course last year, gaining good knowledge and skills related to baby sitting but also coming away with more self-confidence and skills talking to adults".

"Wow this sounds like it was an amazing workshop. My daughter came back raving about it, saying how brilliant and useful it was. This has made her so much more confident about babysitting, just having really useful knowledge and advice she can use. Thank you so much, worth every dollar!"

"It was a really interesting, informative workshop. I really enjoyed it".

"Great feedback from my son who attended your Babysitters course yesterday - many thanks!"

"Thank you both so much for such a great course - the girls are still talking about it!"

Course fees are non refundable. However, as with a cinema ticket, the ticket for a course can be transferred, so if you're unable to attend please pass your ticket on to a friend.

Organized by

First Aid First Ltd has been running baby and toddler first aid courses for parents since 2008.  Designed specifically for parents, grandparents and caregivers, these courses focus on the first aid concerns of anyone involved in bringing up a young child.  The courses are run in a comfortable and relaxed manner, encouraging input and questions from everyone on the course.   As well as 'in person' courses, our live interactive Zoom courses are becoming increasingly popular for parents who find it hard just to get out the door with a baby or toddler in tow...

Sarah is a former ambulance paramedic and experienced first aid instructor.  She is also Mum to two gorgeous boys  -  which helps to keep the courses realistic as she's had her fair share of sleepless nights worrying about sick kids so she knows just what it's like!