You need to properly test your kids. Do the following steps: tell them that they need to be prepared in an emergency, give them steps on any probable emergency(say, like your death, or an intruder or a fire), and give them hands-on training and examples. Retrain them, every 2 or three months, maybe even shorter until they have ingrained in their minds on what to do. Finally, have a list of required items somewhere where it can be reliably found(Say you have an intruder. Have some form of communication to law enforcement in every room or a weapon for defense in a safe place where only the members of the house know and can find it). Don't do what this lady did and just do it out of nowhere. You scared them and failed to teach them what they should and shouldn't do, and they learned nothing.
We were playing when she fell and was not responding when I called her and shook her arm. We were alone but I remembered what my mom had told me to do in emergency situations (i.e. fire, robbery, broken limb, this) : "pick the phone, dial 15 for white (the ER, I live in France), 17 for blue (the police), 18 for red (the firemen), and as soon as someone picks up say who you are and where you live so they know it's not a kid's prank. Then you'll have someone nice asking you questions, so you answer them". I told my grandma I was gonna call the ER, so if it was a prank on her part she had to get up now because I didn't want to go to jail (I really thought pranking emmergency numbers automatically got you years in jail ^^') and as she didn't answer I pressed the button on the phone. I don't really remember what happened next, except one guy told my parents they did good in training me, I got an entire Toblerone bar and there were a lot of tubes coming out of my grandmother.
That’s amazing, glad everything turned out good. I had to call an ambulance too one time, and was taught the same as a kid. But I was 17 years old, luckily, but still glad I’d known what to do for years.
@purplepumpkin WOOT!!! Major props to your 4yo self for saving your grandmothers life. Awesome to know you actually remembered what your parents taught ya, an then used that info to save a love ones life.
I heard some 6 year olds say way harsher stuff. Use to work in the ghetto, an the thugs would teach their little bros, sisters & cousins stuff to say to any police or anybody that they didn’t like. An I’m talking about stuff that would make a sailor blush. Had one 7yr tell me he was gonna “fu:k the shit outta my wife’s ass an make her swallow his nut. Then pass her off to his homies” when I told him I was gonna bring him to jail he said I wasn’t gonna do shit. He knew he juvie would not to take him on a profanity charge. His older brother, who was a crip, was teaching him what he could & couldn’t do. His bro would send him into the gas stations to shoplift stuff they wanted cause they knew the juvie wouldn’t take him cause of his age an it being over crowded. When I asked the little shit where he learned that language, I was hoping he would say his bro, so I could get him for child abuse. Little shit said he wasn’t gonna snitch on anybody.
I had never even heard the f word as a 6 year old