The American Red Cross Babysitter’s Training objectives are:

• Define leadership and identify role modeling, respect, communication, motivation, taking action and decision making as important leadership skills.
• Identify ways to respect diversity among the children they babysit.
• Apply the FIND decision-making model to common babysitting situations.
• Use safe and appropriate techniques for finding babysitting jobs.
• List good business practices and professional work behaviors for babysitting.
• Identify safety-related problems and know how to prevent, recognize and fix them to create a safer environment in and around the home.
• Identify which behaviors to expect from children based on their ages and developmental stages.
• Describe the importance of play for children’s growth and development.
• List and apply appropriate techniques to prevent misbehavior and help children engage in desired behaviors.
• List at least three types of basic child care.
• Recognize an emergency.
• Identify and apply the emergency action steps: CHECK—CALL—CARE.
• Explain the differences between life-threatening and nonlife-threatening emergencies.
• Identify who to call and when to call in different emergency situations.
• Describe how to check a conscious child or infant.
• Explain how to care for bleeding and burns.
• Demonstrate the proper way to wash their hands.
• Demonstrate how to properly remove disposable gloves.
• Demonstrate how to pick up and hold an infant and toddler.
• Demonstrate how to bottle-feed an infant.
• Demonstrate how to spoon-feed an infant or toddler.
• Demonstrate how to diaper an infant or toddler.
• Demonstrate how to help a conscious child or infant who is choking.
• Demonstrate how to check an unconscious child or infant.
• Demonstrate how to give care to an unconscious child or infant who is not breathing.
• Demonstrate the steps to control external bleeding.