Babysitting

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The Babysitting course, refreshed and revised, now has a greater emphasis on First Aid skills. The Canadian Red Cross Babysitting course covers everything from managing difficult behaviours to essential content on leadership and professional conduct as a babysitter. Babysitting promises to deepen and enhance the responsibility that older youth feel when caring for younger children. This updated curriculum, complete with new science, also provides improved learning when it comes to giving the appropriate care in the event of an emergency.

Ages 11 to 15 The Babysitting course teaches youth essential skills to prevent and respond to emergencies. You will learn how to recognize and prevent unsafe situations, make safe choices and promote safe behaviours. Moreover, you will also learn how to feed, diaper, dress, and play with children and babies. 

This program also gives you the skills to promote yourself as a babysitter to prospective families. You will learn to make good decisions, manage complex behaviours, be responsible, and demonstrate leadership. 

The course also covers information on children's developmental stages and specific strategies for each stage, as well as first aid skills and the business of babysitting. Don't miss out on this opportunity to become a skilled babysitter and make a positive difference in the lives of children.

Flexible scheduling options. Also available in virtual, instructor-led delivery format

7 to 8 hours. 

Minimum 11 years of age* (or completion of Grade 5)
 

Babysitter Completion Certificate
 

• How to be responsible and demonstrate leadership 
• How to make good decisions and manage difficult behaviours
• Information on children’s developmental stages, and specific strategies for each stage 
• How to feed, diaper, dress, and play with children and babies 
• How to recognize and prevent unsafe situations, make safe choices and promote safe behaviours 
• First aid skills 
• The business of babysitting

Babysitter's Manual

• How to be responsible and demonstrate leadership 
• How to make good decisions and manage difficult behaviours
• Information on children’s developmental stages, and specific strategies for each stage 
• How to feed, diaper, dress, and play with children and babies 
• How to recognize and prevent unsafe situations, make safe choices and promote safe behaviours 
• The business of babysitting
• First Aid Content:
  • Check, Call, Care (includes phoning EMS/911), glove removal, recovery position, conscious choking (adult/child/baby/alone), CPR (baby/child), illness, asthma (includes use of inhaler and spacer), anaphylaxis (includes use of EpiPen), poisoning, insect stings, wound care (i.e. minor cuts and scrapes, splinters, nosebleeds, bumps and bruises, life-threatening bleeding, burns), head, neck and back injuries, broken bones, seizures