| Would you know what to do if your baby or young | | | | agreement that CPR is something they should learn; |
| child started to choke? What if they stopped | | | | but they do not have the time, money, or babysitters |
| responding and their little body went lifeless; would you | | | | to take a four to six hour CPR class. Requiring them to |
| know how to help them? | | | | take an infant child CPR course is not the answer. We |
| In the United States we require all our child care | | | | must make the courses easier to take and less |
| workers to know CPR. This is required because we | | | | expensive. |
| can't imagine leaving our children with persons who | | | | One of the best ways to make infant child CPR more |
| don't know how to help them in an emergency. Yet; | | | | accessible is to provide a high quality online course. |
| many parents, expecting parents, grand parents and | | | | There are many websites where you can find pictures |
| older siblings do not know infant and child CPR or how | | | | and instructions on how to give CPR; but to learn infant |
| to help a choking child or infant. Some statistics have | | | | CPR more effectively you need to participate in an |
| even shown that less than 4% of parents know infant | | | | online course that uses the best practices of learning |
| CPR. | | | | combining videos, narration, pictures, text, and quizzes. |
| Every year thousands of children die from choking and | | | | In addition to this; a high quality online CPR course |
| drowning, and many more end up in the hospital | | | | should provide a way for you to ask questions and |
| because of these events. As parents we must | | | | receive answers from certified instructors. This type of |
| prepare ourselves to help in an emergency. Our | | | | course will help you remember the skills you've learned |
| children expect us to be able to help them so we as | | | | after you walk away from your computer. |
| parents must prepare ourselves to help. | | | | When it comes to teaching parents infant and child |
| In the last several years there have been discussions | | | | CPR we must think outside the box. We must stop |
| to make legislation that would require all parents to go | | | | focusing on certifications which make courses |
| through a CPR course. Those who are in favor of this | | | | expensive, time consuming and hard to attend. And |
| type of legislation are on the right track but are not | | | | we must start providing easy affordable access to |
| seeing the whole picture. Parents usually are in | | | | good CPR training. |