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18 Quick Tips for Quality Time while Babysitting

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18 Quick Tips for Quality Time while Babysitting

When I teach my Babysitting class for youth ages 11+, I urge them to use their creativity while babysitting.   I talk about quality time while babysitting so that the children enjoy themselves – versus time watching television or computer games.    Quality time while babysitting is wonderful and helps children develop and be happy – television and computer games is a waste of a beautiful little mind.

Sometimes my students feel stumped about what to do while babysitting when the children DO say, “Let’s watch TV!” and “Let’s play computer games!”    They know what I’ve told them about how invaluable reading to kids is, and how valuable getting little kids to talk and answer questions is.   To dissuade the kids from TV, I realized my students could benefit from a Quick Tip list of things to do with the children; things the babysitter may have forgotten from their own younger years.

I hope you’ll look at my .pdf list – and print it out – 18 Quick Tips for Quality Time While Babysitting.    Hopefully, this list of quality time while babysitting will spark more and more fun ideas!   These young babysitters are SMART and CREATIVE!

Build a FORT!

Build a FORT!

My 18 Quick Tips covers thing to TEACH, things to BUILD, things that ENTERTAIN – and more.   Teach the child how to do a jumping jack!

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Jumping Jacks!

I also remind my students that if they engage in quality time while babysitting, the little children will REQUEST them when a babysitter is needed!    That’s very important to them – they want to be a babysitter, their entrepreneurial venture!    They are excited to make money providing just what the parents want – my students are a) kind and b) trained.   Yee ha!

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Best Best Best Toys Ever — Kids 2-8

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Best Best Best Toys Ever

This company in Switzerland makes the best best best toys ever!

Check out the BILIBO!   Check out the OOGI!   Check out the Plui Rain Cloud!

The BEST toys ever.   Really.

Enjoy watching the Bilibo video  of these little kids having a fun, fun time.    Even better than that, this toy nudges them to creativity, it nudges them to explore, it nudges them to develop their ideas.    That is absolutely priceless as they grow.

Enter… BILIBO!

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BILIBO – a best best best toys

Here’s the OOGI!    The video that will make you laugh with joy

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OOGI – a best best best toys

Explore further what this excellent company has continually been developing!    The Bilibo has been such a success that they just keep creating, making and doing.   More toys.   More fun.   Wonderful.

Here’s the PLUI!    Enjoy

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PLUI – a best best best toys

I commend all parentsand babysitters – who keep the TV, computer, video games OFF and stay active with the kids – play, run, jump.

Youth babysitters – use the best toy ever!

I have been teaching young people how to be safe Babysitters for over 16 years in my classes in Denver, Colorado.    My class covers preventing injuries, diapering/burping, first aid, the choking skills, full CPR and, so importantly, QUALITY TIME!     Studies have shown that busy parents, perhaps both employed, often enjoy too little one-to-one time with their children.   It’s part of why I’m so passionate about babysitters engaging in quality time while babysitting; little kids flourish with attention.     I urge that these young babysitters read to them, read to them, read to them, as well as play with them, play with them, play with them.   I ask them:  Have you ever taught the little child to “bicycle” with their legs in the air?    Have you taught them to balance something on their head or hand and talk across the room?   Have you taught them to balance on one foot while you both count as high as you can go?

Here’s my video urging Babysitters to read to children – please view!

Best wishes – stay safe!

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Jean Lesmeister, 16 year Babysitting CPR, Adult CPR & First Aid Instructor

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Please give yourself CPR – get training, that is…

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Yes, give yourself CPR – get training

I’ve been teaching CPR for 15 years and I have some YES or NO questions for you:

  • When someone is coughing and choking, do you hit them on the back?

Answer:   No, medical directors state that it is counterproductive.    (You’re right – we used to train it, but it’s changed)

 

  • If a 3 year old is choking, do you stand them on a chair so you can perform the abdominal thrust?

Answer: No, they could fall and be injured.   You kneel down behind them for the thrust.

 

  • If someone insists they are OK and insists that you DO NOT call 911, do you comply and not call?

Answer:   You do not need permission to call 911 (only permission to touch someone’s body to give care).   Call !

 

  • If an elderly person is coughing and coughing, is alarmed to be choking, do you give them the abdominal thrust?

Answer:   No.   If they are coughing, the body is trying to expel it.   You only take action when they are utterly silent; no air is getting in or out; the body isn’t doing it.

 

  • If someone is woozy and not feeling well, do you encourage them to walk slowly and breathe deeply?

Answer:   No. Encourage them to lie down – they may lose consciousness and FALL down.   Then there are very likely added injuries.

 

  • If a very pregnant woman is choking, do you do nothing because the abdominal thrust will injure the baby inside her?

Answer:   There is a special choking technique to use for people in wheelchairs and pregnant women because you can’t thrust on their abdomen.

CPR – get training

Take just a moment and imagine three people you love dearly.    Do you see the three faces of those loved ones?

Would you give two hours of time to save their life?   Yes?   That’s what a  CPR/choking skills class takes – two hours.   For such a beautiful reason.

Statistics show that you are most likely to help someone you love who is choking, or who is unconscious and not breathing, or who is experiencing an altered state of consciousness.

Perhaps you know that an altered state of consciousness, confusion, low responsiveness to your questions could mean an allergic reaction, or possibly a diabetic emergency, or maybe a stroke.   Can you tell?

You don’t need to know what is the problem – you only need to do one thing, now.   You have Recognized An Emergency – so you call 911.     So much of helping loved ones is to be alert and SEE that something is wrong.

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Call 911 – Reach out for help

911 Dispatchers are there for you!

Do you envision 911 happens like this?   Step 1: You call 911   Step 2: You hear sirens as the truck arrives

Nope, this is what happens…

Step 1: You call 911   Step 2: Dispatch talks to you and helps you   Step 3:  You give care in that vital Window of Time  Step 4: You hear sirens as the truck arrives

Dispatch is amazing.   They are there for you –  to help you stay calm if you are very frightened.   They focus in on the questions to ask about the person in trouble.    That information helps you take action – that information helps them convey to the en route response team what they need to know.

What if they say to you, “Do you know how to give CPR compressions?”

Whoa

What if you say, “No, no I don’t…”

You don’t want that feeling!    Scared.  Helpless.

I (and all health care agencies) want you to be able to say, “Yes, yes, I do!

You’re Smart.   For 2016, you are going to do it, right?  CPR – get training!

For 15 years, I have taught a youth (age 11+) Babysitting Safety/CPR class.   We work with dolls to diaper and burp, first aid, spending quality time, the choking skill and, yes, full CPR training.    I tell my young students as we begin class that I commend them for taking the 4 hour course to get trained before they babysit.   Many parents – and maybe the parents they will babysit for – are not trained.   Yes, the parents love their little precious children – but they STILL don’t get trained!    As babysitters, I tell them they may be more able to save a young life than those parents are!

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I can DO it!

If someone gets trained, there is a presence of confidence and security that I believe is priceless.   That person, in their heart and mind, has a background sense of being empowered to respond, to be able to save a life.

I consider it similar to knowing how to change a tire on your vehicle, as a possible example.   You may never have to change a tire but someone taught you and there is a quiet, silent confidence in the back of your mind of “I know what to do if I need to change a tire!”.   Nice feeling, that confidence that you are empowered to act.

Changing a tire?   Small potatoes.

Saving a loved one’s life?   Priceless.

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Jean Lesmeister, 15 year Babysitting CPR, Adult CPR & First Aid Instructor

American Safety & Health Institute (ASHI)

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Holiday Pet Safety Tips

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Usually I blog about human safety since, for 15 years, I’ve been an Instructor of CPR, youth Babysitting CPR classes, and First Aid.    But, this Holiday Season, it’s very timely to renew a few tips about your PETS and keeping them safe.

Holiday Pet Safety Tips – Prevention is always the best!

At this time of year, there are more things for your pet to chew on, explore and play with.    Yikes.    The Health and Safety Institute has offered a recent blog with great tips from pet professionals.

The new presence in the living room of extension cords can be very dangerous – your animal might bite down on the cord and suffer a huge electrical jolt.   They might eat any number of bad things – treats left out, poison holly/ivy plants, stagnant water in the tree base if you have a natural holiday tree – and more.

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New Things to Chew at the Holiday Season!

The Health and Safety Institute borrowed great advice from the ASPCA about Holiday Pet Safety Tips, as well as Veterinarian advice from a college of veterinary medicine.

Holiday Pet Safety Tips – Holiday Stress for Pets as well as Humans

This time of year is full of music, parties, banquets, visiting relatives, loud noises, loud laughter – all the FUN STUFF.   But that fun stuff, for you, may not be at all fun for your pet.    Check out these stress-free tips for your pet.

Personally, I’ve experienced being present in a home when the cat bit down on an electrical cord from under the Christmas tree.    It was a frightening and abrupt thrashing under the tree, the poor cat being bludgeoned with electricity.    The cat survived but was clearly suffering a disability, ever after.

I recently visited a home where the dog was aggressive to visitors, barking often, barking loudly.  I wondered if this season for that family would remain a safe one…

I also recently witnessed a gathering where two owners had brought their dogs with them – and were enjoying conversation with each other – when suddenly the dogs exploded into aggression with each other.   It was sudden and terrifying and one dog was injured.    Will people be bringing their pets to other homes, other sites, for the holidays?

Of course the adage applies – Better Safe Than Sorry.

Have a lovely and safe Holiday SeasonYou AND your pets!

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Jean Lesmeister, 15 year Babysitting CPR, Adult CPR & First Aid Instructor

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Reading Aloud To Your Older Kids – Here’s Why

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Reading Aloud To Your Older Kids

There are so many amazing benefits to reading aloud to your kids.   Can you picture your 4 or 5 year old snuggling up while you read the story?    Well, experts assert that you should be doing the SAME for your older kids, too.

Preschool children and those in first and second grades are learning orally.    They cannot yet read.   It is from listening to parents talk that they are learning vocabulary.    And better than that is reading to them.    When speaking we tend to use half-sentences and quick phrases – but in reading, the language is rich, complete sentences are used, vocabulary is richer.

A child with a large vocabulary does better in school than the child who has little familiarity with words and vocabulary.

Reading Aloud To Your Older Kids – At what age is your older child listening?

Reading Aloud To Your Older Kids

Reading Aloud To Your Older Kids

A child’s reading level doesn’t catch up to listening level until eighth grade“, states writer Connie Matthiessen in her article on the findings of famed Educator Jim Trelease.    Her article “Hidden Benefits of Reading Aloud”  delves into the idea that a youth in fifth grade can enjoy the story, and more complicated plot, of a book designed for a seventh grader.    That means they can “listen” at a higher level when read to.   That opens a very, very large bounty of good things.

The Excellent Things About Reading Aloud To Your Older Child

  • they get excited about a situation outside their reality – and thus develop understanding and empathy for the characters in the story
  • they are sharing powerful one-to-one time with you, the parent
  • difficult issues can be discussed and explored, presented in the story
  • talking together about the character’s challenges increases the bond and communication level – so important – between parent and youth

A definite consideration for talking about the issues of a character in the story is that the thoughts and questions from you, the parent, are not perceived as “lecturing”.    The focus is on the challenges of the character.   Your child can talk more freely when you ask, “Do you think the boy made the right choice?”, for instance.

Is this quality time?

Is this quality time?

If You Read, They Will Read

When a parent shows that they value reading – by reading to their kids and by reading for pleasure, themselves – that message is transmitted to the children.   In a world of too many electronics, too many video games, too much shallow content, quality stories “make you laugh, make you cry, and move the soul.”

Be Selfish:  Keep Reading To Your Kids

Greg Weinger shares the benefits to the parent by reading aloud to older kids, in his article “Be Selfish: Keep Reading To Your Kids“.    Below is the list he shares about those benefits.

At the end of the day, a 30-minute daily activity that helps you:

  • set aside your work and the stress of life
  • connect with your children
  • lower your heart rate and blood pressure
  • enjoy some of the greatest stories ever told
  • recharge your creativity and ability to think

Matthiessen states that youth are more and more addicted to electronic devices and need to be protected from too much time playing games and social network sites.    That’s why the quality time spent together – and the time spent reading aloud – is invaluable.

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Jean Lesmeister, 15 year Babysitting CPR, Adult CPR & First Aid Instructor

American Safety & Health Institute (ASHI)

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Big Bad Cough – oh, dear…

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Big BAD Cough

So… it’s the flu season?

So, we focus on the flu, right?

Well… wait… let’s focus on something that’s pretty serious – and even fatal for infants.

Whooping Cough.

I hope you will watch the great video about the need to get vaccinated for whooping cough so you aren’t a CARRIER to little kids, yourself.

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Big BAD Cough information

A very nice, informative video has been created by the Help Prevent Disease website people to give people more information about Whooping Cough.    The video shows that a loving grandmother, holding an infant with love, might still be the person who conveys the Whooping Cough virus.    And there’s a remedy!   Vaccination.

Of course, this video has focused on grandparents as a way to spread the message – the POINT is that every one of us in the society can be careful about spreading disease to others.    They are playing on the wolf, from Little Red Riding Hood, when she says “grandmother, you like different”.   You know the story…   They’re trying to find a creative way to insert that the presence of a scary virus/disease can be “hidden”.  Even a loving grandparent could transmit.   “Big Bad Cough” tied to the story of “Big Bad Wolf”.

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This website, Help Prevent Disease, directs you to a page called “What IS Whooping Cough?” and “Whooping Cough FAQ’s” and there is an interesting little “test” you can take called True/False Challenge – just FIVE questions – it asks you about Whooping Cough, of course, and you end up getting educated, educated, educated.   And THAT’S the key to all health issues, safety issues, prevention issues – get EDUCATED!

Big BAD Cough – an important extra!

This seems a good time to also remind people about coughing and sneezing.   Please, please, please COVER it!   100% of the flying projections from your sneeze or cough can be contained by using a handkerchief or tissue.   100%.   Yes – ONE HUNDRED PERCENT.

Sneezing into your elbow?   SO LIMITED – lots of droplets still splay out many, many feet.   Check out my blog about SNEEZING.

If your sneeze sneaks up on you?   SNEEZE DOWN YOUR SHIRT!   I call it “keep it at home”.   You’re not spreading it to others.  You’re localizing into your shirt.   GOOD FOR YOU!  

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As always, Stay Safe, Learn More, GET TRAINED!

Best wishes!

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Toss Your TV – from all Bedrooms, that is…

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Toss Your TV

During my 15 years of teaching youth Babysitting CPR classes (age 11+), I have always urged my young students to minimize use of the television and computer while they’re babysitting.   I stress the value of reading to the children, asking them questions, making up creative fun.    This is REAL time, quality time, and is wonderful for the children.   It is being studied how little attention little children may actually be receiving due to employed and busy parents, large daycare classrooms, the pace of life, evenings busy with meal preparation, etc. and more.    We have fun in my class brainstorming fun things to do while babysitting.

I urge my students that avoiding TV, movies and video games are very healthy choices for children.   Another healthy choice is to Toss Your TV, which is what I call having no TV, or any electronics, in bedrooms.

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Toss Your TV – It hurts children’s sleep

The Children’s Hospital Colorado was recently referenced in an article called Kids Who Have Electronic Devices In Their Rooms Get Less Sleep.

“Sleep deprivation in kids can lead to weight gain, problems in school and behavioral changes”, says Ann Halbower, the hospital’s director of pediatric sleep research.    Technology is one culprit, Halbower says. The Sleep Foundation study found that 72 percent of children ages 6 to 17 who have an electronic device on in their rooms all night sleep up to one hour less, on average, than those who shut them off.

A shocking statistic from the L.A. Times states:    Nationwide, 70% of kids between the ages of 8 and 18 already have a television in their bedroom.

Vicky Rideout, who has written some of the most detailed studies of children’s media exposure and its effects for the Kaiser Family Foundation, said the latest study should strengthen some well established warnings but may miss some newer dangers as well.

Victims of Advertising

“Research has consistently shown better outcomes for kids who don’t have a TV in their bedroom than for those who do, whether we’re talking about obesity, sleep or academic achievement,” said Rideout, now an independent consultant specializing in health communication, social marketing and youth and media. Rideout urges parents to “take the TV out of the bedroom.” But newer technologies will require a new level of vigilance, she adds. “Keep an eye on your child’s smartphone and computers too, because food companies are now marketing games, websites and mobile apps designed to boost consumption of foods kids should be eating less of, not more of,” Rideout said.

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You’re Wasting Money on that bedroom TV

Household electronics continue to use energy and electricity even when powered off. It’s called standby-power and it amounts to 5-10% of your total electricity bill.  One less television means one less financial drain on your checkbook.

RULE – The Bedroom Should ONLY be for sleep.

For adults, a TV in the bedroom can be hurting your mental attitude as well as your marital relationship.    There is a very nice list of reasons to NOT have a TV in your bedroom called  18 Good Reasons to Get the TV OUT of Your Bedroom.    I really like this list.   It’s very detailed and elucidates how quality time together can be sabotaged by that remote control, too handy, too available…

Very often, the young students in my Babysitting CPR class like to stay behind class to help me put away the dolls and mannequins we’ve used in class.    It’s always a nice conversation time and I so appreciate their help.   Lots of supplies used in that class!     I glean some interesting information from these casual conversations.    They’ve told me about how many of their friends fall asleep in class because they played video games in their bedrooms until as late as 2 am.    My heart breaks, hearing that.   It’s not only, of course, a set-up for academic failure in school but also so tragic that any young people grow obsessed with these addictive, unhealthy video games.     It’s such a massive waste of their beautiful brains.

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Jean Lesmeister, 15 year CPR & First Aid Instructor

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Good questions for kids – instead of ‘how was your day’

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For 15 years I have been teaching youth Babysitting Safety classes and Adult CPR classes.   I love the idea of everyone getting trained!    You ARE most likely to give care to someone you love.

I particularly like that the youth Babysitting CPR class (yes, includes CPR) is not only making them safer babysitters but also giving them LIFE skills.   They learn to recognize an emergency, feel confident to reach out to Dispatch/911, utilize the choking skill training, and more – and can help their families and friends.

Questions for Kids

A BIG topic in my Babysitting CPR class is to talk about avoiding television and video games.    I urge babysitters to give personal attention to the children for two reasons 1) the children benefit from attention and 2) the children will prefer them over other babysitters – which equates to money.      I tell my students (age 11+) as I start class, “I am thinking you are here today to take a Babysitting CPR class because you a) like children and b) want to make money“.    They squirm and laugh and grimace that I pegged that b) part.   I commend them for getting trained – and they head out of class eager to make money with their “new business”.

I tell them, “Good for you!   You deserve to make money as a Babysitter because you are two things these parents want – a) you are kind and b) you are trained – by taking this class”.

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“Talking” kids – not TV or video game zombies

I urge babysitters – and parents – to get the little children to TALK.    It can be pretty shocking how little attention time in the day children get from their parents – and babysitters.   Life is going at a crazy pace.    Parents drop kids at school or day care – where they are in GROUPS in these environments which equates to reduced personal time.   At home in the evening, there is also LOTS going on –  parents are preparing dinner, catching up with each other, trying to get the dog some exercise, check mail received,  and more.

Questions for Kids from Parent CO

I really like this article from Parent CO written for parents to ask their child after a school day – but these great questions can be used by youthful babysitters, too.

It’s about get the child talking.     “How was your day” is a question that will likely garner only this response – “Fine”.     A dead end.

Here’s a great one!    Who made you smile today?”

Or,  “Did anyone push your buttons today?”

Or,  “Which person in your class is your exact opposite?”

Or,  “If aliens came to school and beamed up 3 kids, who do you wish they would take? Why?”

Be creative!    You can think up a whole bunch more “Questions for Kids”!

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Sneezing advice is important to know – and share.

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Sneezing Advice

Of course, it’s normal to sneeze all year round, during every season.    However, in the fall of the year, we start thinking about the upcoming flu season.    Our own sneezing and people sneezing around us has a higher profile.   We’re sensitizing to the upcoming flu season.    Which is good!    Flu season IS coming!     Reminder ourselves of sneezing advice is a great idea.

Let’s stop spreading germs to each other.

Airborne Germs and Viruses

One way we get sick is by inhaling those germs and viruses from the air – called airborne contact.  Airborne contact is usually because someone has sneezed.     The person who spread the germs into the air may have not been very close to you when they sneezed.   They may have left their sneeze behind hours ago – but it’s still in the air for you to inhale, hours and hours later.

Another big germ spreader – our hands!   Everyone’s hands have picked up germs from some surface or other and as we touch this, touch that, we are busily spreading those germs about.    Common items that many people touch through a day:

  • a door knob
  • a computer mouse
  • a table top
  • a chair back
  • an elevator button
  • rest room stall locks

Sneezing advice – Wash Your Hands!

Stop and think – did you wash your hands before reaching for your lunch sandwich?   What IS on your hands?

Stop and think – did you wash your hands before you rubbed your eye?   did you lick your finger to turn the page in a book?

 

From Science Line –  Sneezing is basically ‘nature’s broom,’” says Dr. James Banks, an allergist and immunologist in private practice in Arnold, Md. “It is a way our bodies purge foreign matter that has invaded our noses.”

About sneezing…   Did you know you have a “sneeze center”?

From WebMD –  Neil Kao, MD, an allergy and asthma specialist at the Allergic Disease and Asthma Center in Greenville, S.C. states, “Sneezes protect your body by clearing the nose of bacteria and viruses.  When something enters your nose or you encounter a trigger that sets off your “sneeze center” in your brain (located in the lower brain stem) signals are rapidly sent to tightly close your throat, eyes, and mouth. Next, your chest muscles vigorously contract, and then your throat muscles quickly relax.  As a result, air — along with saliva and mucus — is forced out of your mouth and nose.”

It is believed that a sneeze can come out of your body at 100 miles per hour.

Yes, 100 miles per hour – and drops of saliva can fly out 11 feet and more.

ABC news has made a 2-minute video showing sneezing advice and sneezing information that is great!   It’s called “What Is The Best Way to Sneeze?”    (may have a short commercial to skip, first)   This is GREAT sneezing advice!

Sneezing advice - use a tissue!

Sneezing advice – use a tissue!

You’ll find that YOUR MOM WAS RIGHTthe only way to 100% stop sneeze spray is a handkerchief or tissue.    Thanks, Mom!    Another great solution if the sneeze is coming NOW and you don’t have time – pull your shirt out and sneeze down inside your shirt.    Germs are stopped right there – none out into the community!    Good for you.

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Jean Lesmeister, 15 year CPR & First Aid Instructor

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TV tip-over

TV tip-over like falling 10 stories?

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Injuries and accidents happen so VERY quickly.    Adults know a lot about safety and preventing injuries.   Adults have had decades and decades to accumulate experiences, warnings, education and more.   Even so, ADULTS get hurt all too often!    Just think of little kids – they have little or no idea of what can hurt them.   They could fall from that?   They could get burned on that?   That is very sharp?   That could fall on you?   (Like a TV tip-over!)   They just don’t know.

Thus, an injury or accident can occur.    Teaching First Aid and CPR and youth Babysitting CPR (age 11+) for these 15 years, I certainly am passionate about training for safety.   I am also the recipient of a tsunami of stories, over these years.    Students, young or old, will share in class family experiences, their own accident details, or something that happened to their friend…

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TV TIP-OVER

Little kids climbing up on furniture to get to something they want can cause the furniture – and the TV on top of it – to fall over onto them.    Beyond serious injury, the TV tip-over can cause death.

From the website of Safe Kids Worldwide:

Because of its weight, a 36-inch CRT television falling three feet

creates the same momentum as a 1-year-old child falling 10 stories.

Safe Kids reports, regarding TV & furniture tip-overs:    22,200 children (ages 19 and under) are seen in emergency departments for injuries related to  furniture, appliance and TV tip-overs each year, on average.
IKEA Offers a Helping Hand
As a major furniture provider, IKEA includes free kits to attach furniture to a wall to help prevent child injury and death.     They sell massive amounts of chest of drawers, bookshelves, side tables and more.    This is wonderful that IKEA is committed to this safety issue.
IKEA offers an informational brochure called SECURE IT – Preventing Furniture and TV tip-over Accidents.   The brochure explains the need but also shows how to install a safe wall unit.
Prevent a TV tip-over and other furniture.    It’s always “better to be safe than sorry”.
Stay Safe – Get Trained!
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