What age do you teach your kid to call 911?

[Anonymous]

S/O of the other thread, obviously. My just turned 4 year old would have no idea what to do if I got knocked out. We also don't have a land line. Do we keep an old phone charged and teach her to call 911? What age did you teach that AND what age can you reasonably expect them to do it instead of just panicking?

[Anonymous]

I’d say 5. Kid knows my phone passcode and how to dial 911. He also knows to go to the neighbors.

[Anonymous]

Age 3 - 4. Of course they tested it. Hung up and then had to answer the phone and explain to them what had happened.

[Anonymous]

We started teaching at 4. At 5 (almost 6) i had a medical emergency and DS called 911 and then DH (like we had taught him).

At 4, we taught him to just call 911.

At 5, we taught him to then call the other parent , and if that didn't work, call grandma's (my mom if it was me, dh's mom if it was him).

[Anonymous]

I taught DS how to use the phone at 8, when I started to leave him home alone for a few minutes at a time. He knows both DH's and my cell phone numbers and how to use the landline phone, as well as how to make calls on our cell phones (in case he ever has to borrow someone's phone when he's away from the house).

[Anonymous]

4 or 5 is good. DS it was closer to 5 because I didn't trust him not to call 911 on a whim before then. DD was fine learning at 4.
I'm a Girl Scout leader and knowing how and when to call 911 is part of a few different things the girls can earn as Daisies in Kindergarten.

[Anonymous]

Late 2/early 3.

[Anonymous]

I think we started talking about it at 4, showed DD at 5, and got a landline at 6. DD knows both parents' phone numbers also. But, I am not sure she would think to make a call if faced with a collapsed parent.

[Anonymous]

Get a land line and starts teaching them no later than age 3. There was a three year old whose mother was a diabetic and in shock and kid called 911 and saved her life. You should also get the lock that you can put keys in so emergency team do not have to break down doors.

So many of you have fits about nannies not being safe with children and you are a thousand times worse,!

[Anonymous]

Started at 3, but honed it at 4

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get a land line and starts teaching them no later than age 3. There was a three year old whose mother was a diabetic and in shock and kid called 911 and saved her life. You should also get the lock that you can put keys in so emergency team do not have to break down doors.

[/b]So many of you have fits about nannies not being safe with children and you are a thousand times worse[b],!

People have much higher expectations and standards for outsourced care than they do for themselves. I’m not supporting that idea—just an observation.

[Anonymous]

My 11 year old called 911 when he came back from school one day to find me passed out on the floor. I was having a thyroid storm, which can be deadly. I don't recall when I told my kids about 911, but it was casual and somewhere around the mid-elementary years.

[Anonymous]

So for those of you without land lines, do you teach them to use your phone (then they'd have to look in your bag?) or get a flip phone for the house? We were getting endless spam calls on our landline and aren't really interested in getting another.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So for those of you without land lines, do you teach them to use your phone (then they'd have to look in your bag?) or get a flip phone for the house? We were getting endless spam calls on our landline and aren't really interested in getting another.

We don’t have a landline. Yes, I teach them to use my phone. It’s usually in my pocket.

[Anonymous]

5