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• Teach a child the stop-drop-and-roll fire safety procedure.
• Create a fire escape plan for a family where you baby-sit. Write it out and give it to them.
• Go to a local store that sells child care supplies. Identify at least six child safety devices that can be installed in a home. Write them in your 4-H journal.
• Go to the grocery store. Study the different types of diapers. How do you determine which diapers to buy?
• Find out how to prevent diaper rash and what to do if a child has diaper rash. Write it in your 4-H journal.
• Ask your parents and family for pictures of you from birth to 5 years and find out what you were like at these ages. How were you the same or different from the children that you keep? Write it down.
• Look through the books you enjoyed as a child. Select a few to take with you the next time you baby-sit and read them to the children you keep.
• Find out the three positions for burping a baby. Practice all three on a doll.
• Visit the Web site Safety Belt USA at http://www.carseat.org to learn important information about using car seats, safety belts, and air bags. Write down what you learn in your 4-H journal. If you do not have a computer at home, try to use one at school or at your local library. Maybe your parents have access to a computer at work that you may use.
• Visit the Web site Toy Safety at http://www.toytips.com/. What are the things you should think about before purchasing a toy for a child? Write down the suggested guidelines for safe toy use in your 4-H journal.
• Make your own first aid kit to take with you when you baby-sit. Ask your parents and other relatives to help you decide what to put in it.
• Teach a child to spell his or her name.
• Teach a child to make a bed. Be sure he or she is old enough to learn this task.
• Play a game of follow-the-leader.
• Play a game of Simon says.
• Kiss a boo-boo.
• Hug all of the people who have taken care of you and thank them for the good job they have done.
• Begin teaching someone younger than you are how to be a good baby-sitter.

For more information, contact your county Extension office. Visit http://www.aces.edu/counties or look in your telephone directory under your county's name to find contact information.

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