Preparing child in case of any emergency

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Just wondering how to approach this and wondering if anybody has any advice or has done this themselves?

I feel like you see on social media where like a 4 year old has rang an ambulance as their mum has collapsed and the call is made public to raise awareness and made into like a Facebook video. They always make me really emotional for some reason but after watching, I realised that if something happened to me with my daughter at home, I'd be fucked 🤣 (I do have a heart condition hence the concern)

She's 5, speech etc is fine but how do I teach her something like this? Has anybody else taught their child this?

We did role play phoning emergency services as part of games. They got to practise using the phone by calling grandparents. I was happy they could connect the dots when they started pretending to call emergency services for their toys while playing hospitals. We also covered police, fire and coastguard just through play.

Honestly though, don't overthink it.
She just needs to know if mummy won't wake up, dial 999 and tell the person on the phone - then listen to their questions and answer as best she can.
Other stuff like your name or heart condition might be useful but are not necessary to get help :)

Thank you everybody for your responses! I really appreciate it 😊 Will be discussing it with her when she's back from her dads house - did try to touch on it on Monday but she didn't give a shit lol

GC was taught at nursery to dial 999 and ask for emergency services. Also, to tell an adult if someone hurts him. etc.

His father got an irate call from local police to inform him that his son had just dialled 999, asked for police, given his name and reported that he'd been punched and kicked by a bad person. The victim asked the police to come and arrest the bad person and "make him give back the car he stole from me".

Both the victim and the bad person /car thief were four years old...

Both my kids roughly knew our address from
the age of 3/4 and we practiced what they should do if I was poorly and needed help. They know to call 999.

The one we haven’t done yet but I have been meaning too is if the fire alarm goes off. Having a drill to stay low and talking about exits is recommended.

Poor sod having his car stolen 😢🤣 Annoying about the irate call though, surely wasn't needed obviously they need to check etc! I accidentally butt dialled in Tesco a few months ago and they rang me back to check I was okay but were absolutely lovely about it (I was mortified) 🤣

I taught my dc to dial 112 from very early on.
also taught them their and our full names and adress including the postcode.
(112 because it's the emergency number across europe)

My friends son called an ambulance for his Dad in an emergency, he was 4 at the time. He had been taught to do this quite early on because of his daddy’s medical condition. His Dad also wore an SOS bracelet with details of his medical condition.

My dc knew how to call 999, we had a landline specifically for that purpose. They also knew how to unlock my phone and call Grandma, and which neighbours doors to go and bang on (neighbours had agreed they were happy with that, although I can't imagine any wouldn't be)

We also had a fire escape plan, and they knew how to explain to the call handler how to get to the various rooms that we were in. That was after a session on fire safety at our local community centre.

WRT the exact name of your heart condition, you could have it pinned up somewhere and make sure your DD knows to tell the paramedic where the piece of paper is.