Babysitting Course – Red Cross (Yellowknife)

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.