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Everyone you might need to ring
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Lesson 2 of 6 · Step 15 of 43 in the course
Watch, then decide. The next step only opens when you have it right.
Step 1 of 2
Step 1 of 2
Write them down before you need them
- The worst moment to go looking for a phone number is the moment you need it.
- So we write them down now, on paper, and put them where you can see them.
- On the fridge, not in a drawer.
- Then learn your own address by heart — on a 911 call that is the first thing you will be asked.
Watch, then answer this
Why on paper, when every number is already in the phone?
Step 2 of 2
The back-up person you have actually met
- Your back-up person has to be somebody you have already met, with your parent there.
- Not a name on a list — a person whose door you would be happy to knock on.
- Meeting them once, on an ordinary day, is what makes the door knockable on a bad one.
Watch, then answer this
What makes somebody a real back-up person rather than a name?
That is this lesson.
You watched it, you made the call yourself, and you got it right. That is the whole lesson — nothing here was read to pass.
Your contact card
Fill this in with a parent and keep it where you can see it — on the fridge, not in a drawer. Then learn your own address off by heart, because on a 911 call that is the first thing you will be asked.
My contact card — SOS 4 Kids
Print it. Put it where you can see it from the phone. Check it again in six months, because numbers change.
Now do it
Off the screen, before you leave this page
Watching is not the same as being able to do it. Stand up and work through these. Nothing here is marked and nothing is sent anywhere — the ticks are yours.
Accessibility
Read what happens in each clip instead
Step 1 — On paper, on the fridge. A child and a parent filling in a contact card at the kitchen table, then sticking it on the fridge door. Then the same card seen from across the room, clearly readable from where the phone sits. Ordinary and unhurried.
Step 2 — A door you would be happy to knock on. A parent walks a child next door and introduces them properly to a neighbor — handshake, a few words, the child clearly registering the face. Then, later, the same child at that same door on their own. Warm and completely ordinary.
Every film on this page is narrated and carries a caption track, supplied as a sidecar and never burned into the picture.