Well, I had another amazing week with my third grade first aid class! If you read last weeks post you know what a riot it is. This week we talked about rescue breathing, which involved dummies to practice on. Now if you've ever taken a CPR class you've probably used one of these, you know "Annie" head, torso and that's it right....well with the child practice dummy, it's anatomically correct. And by anatomically correct I mean they have "little boy parts". I thought this wouldn't be a huge problem seeings how they are fully clothed, well I was not so lucky. As soon as those kids were alone with the dummies for one second they were all giggling because apparently the shorts had slipped down and the girls had seen the plastic ...ya know "boy parts". Which drives me to ask the question again, why is the adult dummy a head and torso, the baby dummy has it's limbs but no privates, but the six year old sized dummy has to be anatomicly correct. What pervert made those things?!? So our rescue breathing class turned into a quick lesson on boy parts/girl parts. Then the class could begin.
I was really impressed because the kids remembered all the things we talked about the last week. They could tell us exactly what to do if "someone burns your house down" or "if a cop shoots you for no reason". Smart bunch of 9 year olds. Also as it turns out our 9-1-1 lesson went a little too well and two of the kids went home and practiced calling. One little boy said he got a time out and it was all our fault for "making" him do it...
Another funny thing that happened this week was we made them all practice rescue breathing on the dummies, this turned out to be hilarious! First I took out some alcohol pads to clean the mouths and a kid asked what I was doing, when I told him I was using alcohol wipes to clean them he said, "Sweet we get to get drunk today!" --remember 9 years old -- After they were cleaned I showed them how to perform rescue breaths. As soon as I put my mouth on it to give a breath a kid yelled out "Gay, he's kissing him". Well, jokes on him, cause he was next. After a little coaxing all the little terrors took turns learning and practicing, and actually got pretty good at it. I'm pretty confident now that if I get hurt in Glendale one of my 9 year olds can help me out!
2 comments:
You better teach those kids how to dress a gun shot wound when you get shot by a cop for no reason in Glendale.
After your 9-1-1 lesson they go home and call 9-1-1. That makes me a little worried as to what they will do for the mouth to mouth lesson. I'm sure you will have some really mad parents. Gosh Brian what are you teaching these kids.
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