What is the content of child safety and first aid training?

The first is the common sense of prevention on how to keep common accidents out, and the second is the emergency response skills that can grab 3 minutes of prime time when an accident does occur. Those institutions that frequently list more than a dozen modules are mostly just a showpiece to make up for the class time, and they can't touch anything when they are actually used.

Don’t think that these contents are all taught to children. We require at least one parent to accompany each training. There is a lot of knowledge that adults can understand first, which is more effective than children memorizing. Last month, I was doing training in a public kindergarten in Chaoyang. I just finished explaining the key points of the Heimlich maneuver for foreign body obstruction in the airway of young children. Three days later, a parent sent me a message saying that her child had peanuts stuck in his throat. She followed the learned gestures and coughed up the peanuts three times. Before, she was so panicked that she only patted the child's back randomly. If the foreign body got stuck deeper, she would have to go to the emergency room to get it under general anesthesia.

Speaking of this, I have to mention that the industry is currently divided on whether to teach practical first aid skills to young children: one group believes that children over 7 years old can fully master the operations of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and hemostasis of mild trauma, and can help when family members are in trouble. My colleagues in Shenzhen have done a pilot project, and there are indeed cases where children in the upper grades of primary schools successfully provided preliminary treatment to a grandmother who had fainted.； The other group believes that children do not have enough strength and judgment. Not only are they difficult to achieve the required depth of compression and hemostasis, but they may also put themselves in danger by blindly rescuing. For example, there are many examples of rashly rescuing a companion who has fallen into the water, but getting himself involved instead. Our current compromise plan is to focus on "avoiding danger" and "asking for help" when teaching children: for example, don't jump when someone falls into the water, look for an adult first or throw floating objects such as lifebuoys and mineral water bottles. ； When someone faints, they immediately call someone, accurately report their location and call 120. They will also teach them how to recognize the AED automatic external defibrillator available in subway stations and shopping malls, and know where to get it. However, the specific operation is mainly taught to adult groups such as parents, teachers, and campus security. In fact, both opinions are supported by practical data, and there is no absolute right or wrong.

Don’t think that the training is all about knowledge points. Formal training spends most of the time practicing scenarios. For example, in the anti-trafficking part, we ask volunteers to act as strangers, bring toys, snacks, and even say, “Your mother asked me to pick you up.” There is also the treatment of burns and scalds. Many elderly people know that they need to apply toothpaste and soy sauce. We used pig skins to simulate scalded skin to show everyone how troublesome it is for doctors to clean the wounds after applying these things, and it is easy to leave scars. Everyone immediately remembered to rinse with cold water for 15 minutes before sending them to the doctor. The things that people usually ask about the most frequently, such as prevention of drowning, prevention of falling from heights, accidental ingestion poisoning, and response to school violence, are all explained in scenarios based on real cases, and the terms are not read in a dry manner.

To put it bluntly, child safety training has never been about teaching children to be "little first aid supermen". It is more like installing a double safety insurance for every family: adults first learn how to check for potential safety hazards at home and how to deal with unexpected accidents. Children learn how to avoid danger and how to ask for help when encountering problems. This is better than anything else.