Whitewood Babysitting Club Training
Five Whitewood, SD youth attended a Babysitting Beginnings Training sponsored by the South Dakota Cooperative Extension Service of Lawrence County. Deb Rombough, Family and Consumer Science Educator, was the presenter. The youth gained information and hands-on experience covering basic safety and first aid, how to make healthy snacks, important facts about ages and stages of children, babysitting responsibilities and the business facts, age appropriate activities and much more! Each participant received a babysitter’s kit and a wallet card certificate of completion. This program is a part of the Whitewood Babysitter Club project, a result of the Horizons project.
Follow-up workshops will be available in the future. Currently topics scheduled at the Whitewood Public Library include:
June 19 – First Aid Follow-up / Choking Safety – Ellen Jenter, County Health Nurse (10-11 am)
June 24– Developmentally appropriate activities for children / rainy day activities (2-3 pm)
July 10 – Basic Financial Education / Savings for Youth (10-11 am)
Please pre-register by calling Deb Rombough at the Lawrence County Extension Office @ 642-6200 or Rea W. at the Whitewood Library @ 269-2616.
June 13th, 2008 at 6:58 am
What a great way to teach kids….even if they weren’t all going to babysit it is great information for them to have anyway. I think those kinds of things would be great to offer in a youth center program, maybe over the summer when kids are “bored”. Great job.