Can Your Toddler Make An Emergency Call?

A toddler is in the perfect age for education. In fact, she is getting educated every day. Teaching a child 911 is essential in today's society. Whether it is the nanny or at grandma's house, the skill to summon help is necessary. Most cell phones have a bypass written into the processor allowing 911 calls when a phone is security locked or service for that phone has been discontinued. Can a 2 year old call for help? They most certainly can if the adults in their lives empower and train them how.
Children can easily be learning language skills, reading skills, and even math skills as young as 2 year olds. We handicap children by our prejudices concerning age and learning.

In that case the little girl didn't look in the contacts for her grandmother's number. what she did was call the last number called and that ended up being her grandmothers. it's in the article.

My daughter has had my cell phone number memorized since she was 3. When she got a little older, we had her memorize my Dad's. My husband, my parents, and I are on a family plan with the phone numbers in numeric order starting with my phone and my Dad's being the last. As long as she can remember those 2 numbers, she'll know all of them.
Kids are definitely capable of remembering to dial 911. I was babysitting, when I was 17, for 3 children on a regular basis. One afternoon, we were watching a movie and the phone rings. It was 911. They said they had received a call from the house and were following up. I told them no one here had called and we were okay. Half hour later, another call from an angry 911 operator telling me it wasn't funny to call 911 and hang up and we'd get in trouble if it happened again. I was very annoyed at this point. I told her that I had certainly not called 911. I was busy watching 3 kids and a Disney movie and did not appreciate her calling and lecturing me for something I didn't do. There must be some mistake on their end. It was not until several hours later when I went into the kitchen, right after the 2 year old, and caught him picking up the phone, that I realized he had been calling 911. He was not allowed into the kitchen, unsupervised , on any of my later babysitting gigs.

I'm so worried about my 2-year-old accidentally calling 9-1-1, I never put much thought to teaching him how to call someone in an emergency. At least not yet, but I guess it's never too early to start.

just that am not yet a parent, and in african life you know its hard for a toddler in africa to make an emmergency call coz even parents themselves don't have!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!am just a student....

just that am not yet a parent, and in african life you know its hard for a toddler in africa to make an emmergency call coz even parents themselves don't have!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!am just a student....

I've taught my 4-year-old daughter how to use my phone to dial Grandma, or, in a pinch, my sister. I have their phone numbers taped up next to my desk (my daughter can read numbers) and she knows what she's supposed to say. We practice every so often (it's one of her favorite activities), but I have to remind her that she's never likely to have to use this skill, because she gets worried that something may happen to me.

good article, I always dial for my son to call his grandparents, when I get home today I am going to start teaching him how to do it on his own