Class Enrollment

Red Cross - Babysitting Course with First Aid and CPR/AED
Date/Time:	Sat 7/19/2025 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Location:	A - Bellingham LifeTek @ LaQuinta Inn
Class Price:	$95.00

New and updated Babysitting Training with  First Aid and CPR/AED

This course will provide youth who are planning to babysit with the knowledge and skills necessary to safely and responsibly give care for children and infants. This training will help participants to develop leadership skills; learn how to develop a babysitting business, keep themselves and others safe and help children behave; and learn about basic child care and basic first aid. The recommended age for this course is 11-16 years old.

Our in-person babysitter classes give you access to best-in-class instructors who will share the latest information on child care, offer tips, and can answer all of your questions so that you're ready to start your own babysitting business. With lecture and class activities, these courses are engaging, informative and fun.

• Please CLICK HERE to access the eBook for the course. 

What You'll Learn:

Although every situation is unique, there are some universal skills and techniques that every babysitter should have. The Updated  course was designed with this principle in mind and can help you deliver the care that families need. Just a few of the things our babysitting classes cover include:

• How to be an effective leader
•  How to start a babysitting business and find work
• How to keep everyone safe 
• How to provide basic child care for children and infants
• How to perform basic child care skills (e.g., picking up and holding, bottle-feeding, spoon-feeding and diapering)
• How to choose age-appropriate activities 
• How to recognize and handle a variety of behavior challenges
• How to take the emergency action steps: CHECK—CALL—CARE •
• How to recognize and respond to choking emergencies
• How to perform abdominal thrusts and back blows/chest thrusts for children and infants 
• How to recognize and respond to bleeding emergencies
• How to apply direct pressure to control external life-threatening bleeding Babysitter’s Training with First Aid/CPR/AED additionally includes
• How to recognize and respond to cardiac emergencies
• How to perform CPR and use an AED for children and infants 
• How to respond to sudden illnesses • How to respond to injuries and environmental emergencie

*Participants will receive a Red Cross Babysitting Training and  Pediatric CPR First Aid Digital Certification.