babysitting course

Babysitting
Training Course

At Coast2Coast, we offer the Canadian Red Cross Babysitting course. This course has been revised and updated to focus more specifically on caring for younger children regularly and during emergency situations. It is a Red Cross-approved course that emphasizes First Aid and CPR skills for infants and children.

This Babysitting course will cover topics such as managing problematic behaviours, professionally conducting yourself as a babysitter, and learning how to run a small business. Our Babysitting program promises to deepen and enhance the responsibility that older youth feel when caring for younger children. At Coast2Coast, we believe this amazing babysitting course is for any pre-teen or teen looking to care for children of all ages.

Virtual Babysitting

Duration:

7 to 8 hours

Training is held over 4 sessions, 90 minutes each. Participants must complete 30 minutes of at-home work after each session with family.

Requirements:

  • Internet
  • Zoom
  • Computer/Tablet/Smartphone with camera and microphone
  • Doll or stuffed animal
  • Pair of gloves
  • Towel or unused diaper
  • 100% attendance of the course

Course Content:

  • The Red Cross
  • Importance of Responsibility and Respect
  • Importance of Setting and Following Rules
  • How to Stay Safe
  • How to Prepare, Recognize and Respond to Unexpected Situations
  • Check, Call, Care (includes phoning EMS/911)
  • Recovery Position
  • Conscious Choking (adult/child/alone)
  • Feeling Unwell
  • Asthma (use of inhaler & spacer)
  • Anaphylaxis (use of EpiPen)
  • Poisoning
  • Insect Stings
  • Wound Care (minor cuts, scrapes, splinters, nosebleeds, bumps, bruises, life-threatening bleeding & burns)

Certification

Certificate will be issued with no expiry

Who Can Take This Course?

Pre-Teens or Teens

Duration:

5 to 6 hours

Requirements:

100% attendance of the course

Course Content:

  • The Red Cross
  • Importance of Responsibility and Respect
  • Importance of Setting and Following Rules
  • How to Stay Safe
  • How to Prepare, Recognize and Respond to Unexpected Situations
  • Check, Call, Care (includes phoning EMS/911)
  • Recovery Position
  • Conscious Choking (adult/child/alone)
  • Feeling Unwell
    Asthma (use of inhaler & spacer)
  • Anaphylaxis (use of EpiPen)
  • Poisoning
  • Insect Stings
  • Wound Care (minor cuts, scrapes, splinters, nosebleeds, bumps, bruises, life-threatening bleeding & burns)

Certification

Certificate will be issued with no expiry

Who Can Take This Course?

Pre-Teens or Teens

babysitting course

Babysitting Course Requirements

Our Babysitting training course does not have many requirements prior to attending, making it easy for participants to register for one of our upcoming trainings! With these minimal requirements, more of our youth may learn babysitting skills and begin their babysitting business.

The Babysitting course requires participants to be 11 to 15 years of age.

Coast2Coast
Babysitting Course

As a leading provider of Canadian Red Cross first aid and CPR training courses, Coast2Coast is proud to provide Youth courses as well. Babysitting is one of our two available Youth programs that we offer, providing special training to the children of our communities.

Why Youth Courses are Important

Youth courses, such as Babysitting, are great for teens to not only learn how to care for young children, but also learn amazing life-saving skills! Each of our Youth programs include basic First Aid and CPR training which is an important skill for people of all ages to learn. We believe that it is never too early to learn these skills as accidents happen to people of all ages. Help your children feel confident while taking care of a younger child. Babysitting courses will contain hands-on practice as well as a lecture to keep them engaged and help them understand how to provide necessary care for a child. Participants will practice feeding, dressing and changing diapers for children/infants and learn how to provide CPR, handle nosebleeds, splinters, breathing emergencies and more!

Offering You the Best Training

We pride ourselves on delivering the best training possible to all of our students which is why we are known as a leading provider of Canadian Red Cross training. Safety training for any age should be taken seriously and how we train our students reflects in their skills while providing life-saving techniques or taking care of a young child.

Benefits of Group/
Private Courses

Babysitting courses are available for private training, meaning we can host a course for your group of eight or more participants in a location of your choice.

Hear From Our Students!

Coast2Coast First Aid & Aquatics is committed to providing community-oriented programs that empower individuals with essential life-saving skills. Our aim is to ensure that every participant in our classes and courses gains the necessary techniques to confidently respond to various emergencies. While we sincerely hope that such situations never arise, we are prepared to respond promptly and effectively when needed. Our facilities across Canada are equipped with state-of-the-art First Aid and CPR equipment and supplies. Explore our range of Canadian Red Cross programs or reach out to us for guidance in selecting the course that suits your needs and circumstances best.

Some of Our Happy Clients

Testimonial

limu Wang
instructor Ahmed is amazing!
Ilan Halfon
Professional, on point and extremely helpful. Highly recommended.
Shokofhe Ziapour
Anne Klawsher is a professional and knowledgeable trainer.
I really enjoy the class.
sayid ali ibraahim
Thank you for given me best training
Shakileh Ziapor
Good time and a lot to learn with a professional coach
A Montpetit
Ashraf is an amazing instructor. Gets to know his class quite quickly! Teaches very well! Its great to have medical professionals teaching these courses! My go to in Ottawa! Will keep coming back!
Ferdinand Gbenimako
The venue was the hotel after the Gas station at North Front St for those in Belleville. The instructor was superb and the whole online and in-person sessions were great and reinforcing. I recommend!
afrah alsubaihi
Azra is an excellent instructor, she was very helpful and very caring about making sure I understood and asked questions before she move to other chapter
Thank you
Response from the owner:Hi Afrah! Thank you for your kind review. We hope you had a great training experience and that you found your course with Azra engaging. If you have any questions about the information that you learned, please do not hesitate to reach out! We are looking forward to seeing you again for our Recertification. Stay Safe!
Bailey Diamond
Martina was ABSOLUTELY fabulous- I’ve been doing CPR courses since 2018 & this was most phenomenal learning experience. The time flew by and the course was super informative.
Taylor Diamond
Martina is an angel! Learning from her was a great experience.
Devan Aheer
Instructor Walaa was amazing, she did a great job and good teaching. I would love to come again for my next course.
nandha kumar
Was a great experience with Coast2Coast. Meera did a great job explaining us the contents and made the class really engaging. Thank you so much!
Poonam Yumkham
I just finished the First Aid and CPR course with the Red Cross, and I have to say, my instructor, Walla, was amazing. She was super knowledgeable and made the whole experience really engaging. The course felt so much more useful because of her real-life examples and calm, clear teaching style. Thanks, Walla, for a great learning experience!
Fataneh Zarnegar
Very insightful and informative
Harmandeep Johal
I have a great experience learning about Standard First Aid and CPR with Instructor Waala. She is amazing , patient and nice teacher. She helps a lot in our learning.
Shelly Lefebvre
Great course with an excellent instructor. Thanks Walaa for being thorough & keeping the course interesting.
Callie Z
Walee Li
had an amazing experience in the Standard First Aid & CPR/AED Level C course. The instructor was extremely clear, professional, and made the material easy to understand. They explained every step with patience and gave real-life examples that made the training both practical and engaging. I left the class feeling confident in my skills and ready to respond in an emergency.
Walaa is very clear and supportive when it comes to learning the basics of first aid and emergency cpr aed use.
Rico Micky
Carel was a great instructor. Spending a Saturday 9-5 in a class went much better than I thought it would.
Danielle Tyo
Eric Viegas
Valérie Bourgon
Adriano vega martinez
I take the class with Elhemy very nice person and good teacher to thank you for helping
estrella Levy
Amazing instructor Ali Sekhavati very helpful, patient, with exceptional teaching skills and very professional. Amazing Team at Coast2Coast First Aid & Aquatics at 180 Steeles West,
Derik the manager, Riya Chhabra, thank you so much for your coordination, professionalism and for accommodating us with such a great program efficiently managed!! Outstanding - Clarasol our daughter really enjoyed it and we would highly recommend it.
Uri Shlomi
It was not easy to find this place despite it on the Bloor ((-:
This located on the first entrance of this building from west side (with poster on its door), stairs to the second floor.
Chairs not comfortable for a long-time learning, but the atmosphere was very friendly. Our instructor Muhammad, was a very pleasant and professional instructor. Great thanks !
Sanubar Rahim
Elhamy was an amazing instructor and took the time to ensure that everyone understood the content, he also reinforced our learning through being interactive through games. Overall he was incredibly kind and helpful!
Joshua Chang
Mahnaz Ketabian
Leslie Ann
Ilhamy the best coast2coast instructor
He’s very funny and professional
Great communication feeling of belonging
Khang Luong
Elhamy was an excellent teacher, he was so fun and educational
Rawan Tumallah
I took a class with Elhamy, he’s so good instructor it was a great course with him!
Riya Punchhi
I had a great experience with Elhamy for the first aid and CPR C training, the class was super fun- time went by so quickly! Learnt a lot and had great time during the session.
Saman Mehmood
Elhamy was such a good instructor and made the class absolutely engaging and fun to be in! I can say for the first time that I’ve retained all of the class info and will confidently be able to apply it in my day to day - thank you Elhamy!
Marlene Sulker
The course was very informative by instructor Walaa.
OneZero Two
Walaa was an amazing teacher! The course was taught in a very detailed and professional manner.
Mariam Shleemoon
nika Mansour
Perfect
Ed Besuijen
France Carenant
EZZ, this is a wonderful course
Kathy Kogut
Ezz was very helpful.
Jenna Han (Songyee)
did my standard first aid/cpr with an amazing instructor Ezz. thank you
Response from the owner:Jenna, thanks for leaving your fantastic review! We're very happy that you had an enjoyable training course. Anyone can be a hero and now you're ready to save a life since you have completed a safety training course with us! Hope to see you again for recertification. Stay safe!
konata izumi
Good experience for education. EZZ
Alan Raju
Richard Kwasi Dwamenah
EZZ ...A wonderful dedicated tutor. I loved it.
Amar Sidhu
Adel very knowledgeable and thorough with his lesson
Azeez abiodun
The instructor was good and his teaching was very helpful. Adel
Daria Goriainova
Thank you very much, Dr. Adel Morcos!
Jason Phinney
Adal was really good!
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First time at this location and this instructor for my BLS-HCP renewal course. We had a class of seven and our instructor Anne K. did so well teaching us throughout our course as best as she can. Since each of us have a different set of experience with CPR, Standard first Aid and BLS, she had to balance out on teaching each student in order to learn effectively. I really appreciated how passionate and compassionate she is, and she made sure that each of us felt comfortable and confident before moving on to the next lesson. She's highly experienced and approachable! I hope I get her again for my renewal.
Karyn Ho
I took emergency first aid + CPR/AED-C with Elizabeth in midtown Toronto, and I really enjoyed my time learning from her. She was very professional and delivered the course material in a polished and interactive way. She used examples that were memorable and relatable. I also found her to be patient and unflappable in the face of the many questions that people asked throughout the day.

She was attentive as we practiced, giving calm feedback. She also guided us to rehearse all steps in a variety of situations (e.g., if we were alone vs. if we had someone who could assist us) including what we might say as we approach someone who might need help or when we call 911. Everyone practiced at the same time in pairs/threes so that no one was on the spot in front of the whole class, but we could also hear what other students were saying, and I found myself incorporating things I overheard that I thought were useful.

By the end of the day I felt very confident in my understanding of the course material.

A few things to note that I wish I had known before the course started:

1) You have to do an online portion before the course. At the end you are given a PDF certificate, with a message saying that your instructor will have a record of your online course completion. However, you do need to show it to your instructor when you arrive to the in-person; only one student had theirs easily on hand. Save the confirmation to your phone or other device.

2) The multiple choice exam is online. Although there were a few paper copies, you won't get your results immediately if you take the test offline. Luckily I had decided at the last moment to bring my laptop to potentially take notes, but I would not have wanted to take the exam on my phone.


Edit to respond to reply: RE: confirmation of online course completion, to be clear, no one received a confirmation by email. We only received confirmation of the completion of the entire course with the in-person practical by email. The online interim certificate must be downloaded from the online course website and shown at sign in at the in-person portion. That is why it must be saved before attending the course, despite the message saying the instructor will already have confirmation.
Response from the owner:Hi Karyn! We strive to offer the best training experience possible, and that is why your review is very important to us! We’re so glad we were able to train you in Emergency First Aid and CPR/AED Level C, someone who could potentially save a life in the future. It's great to hear how positive of an experience you had with Elizabeth as your instructor, and we'll be sure to let her know! We appreciate your feedback regarding the online portion and final exam. For clarity, the online portion must be completed before attending the in-class session, and this is highlighted during registration as well as in the confirmation email. The confirmation email also explains that students will receive their official certificate by email after successfully completing all course components. That said, we understand it can be a lot of information to take in, and your suggestion about saving the completion record on your phone is an excellent reminder we’ll continue to share with future students. Thanks for choosing Coast2Coast to learn life-saving skills. We hope to see you soon for recertification. Stay safe!

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Coast2Coast First Aid & Aquatics provides WSIB-approved and OHS-approved First Aid, CPR, EMR, Youth courses and more in over 23 locations in Canada! We pride ourselves on hosting the best training experience possible, ensuring our students leave their course feeling confident in their life-saving skills.