What’s Gotta Stay

I was doing some weekend reading online while fixing one of my computers (a whole other story posted over at What’s Gotta Go) and came across this great link.  Though this is applicable to really anyone as a great reference, I think it is particularly good for anyone with kids.

link: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/FirstAidIndex/FirstAidIndex

I think most parents should become eligible for some level of nursing certification by the time their first child reaches the age of 10.  By then I think we have all seen a variety of cuts, bruises, scrapes, black eyes, swollen or cut lips and broken bones to put us through our pre-med paces.  Of course, some parents deal with these situations better than others!

I feel bad for the later kids in families with more than one or two children.  The first child gets the immediate attention, sympathy and action of their parents no matter how small the medical “emergency” is.  With later kids, parents are much more experienced - read that callous and uncaring from a kids perspective - when cuts and bruises take place.  I try to make sure I don’t brush it off too bad when my little girl thinks her world is coming to and end when she scrapes her knee.  Even though I have seen this too many times already, this is a big deal to her!

The list above is a great resource for not only common things, but situations you may not have thought you would deal with.  A good example is right at the top, Anaphylaxis.  I don’t have any kids that are wildly allergic to anything, so this situation doesn’t really cross my mind.  I have neighbor kids now though that are, and because they play with my kids, I could very well be faced with a situation where I need to know what to do.

Give it a look over, and perhaps book mark it to read regularly until you make it through the list.  Someday you might be very happy you did!