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Food, and the things that are actually dangerous

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Lesson 5 of 6 · Step 18 of 43 in the course

Watch, then decide. The next step only opens when you have it right.

Step 1 of 3

Step 1 of 3

Safe snacking

  • The rule SOS 4 Kids teaches is short: nothing that has to be cooked, and no knives.
  • Fine on your own — fruit, cereal and milk, a sandwich already made, carrots and a dip somebody prepared, yogurt, crackers.
  • Waits for a grown-up — anything frozen, anything that needs the stove or the oven, anything that needs a sharp knife, anything hot enough to burn.

Watch, then answer this

Frozen chicken fingers. Yes or no?

Step 2 of 3

Choking — worth reading twice

  • Choking is the most likely serious emergency for somebody your age at home, and it is silent.
  • Coughing loudly means air is moving. Keep coughing. Do not let anybody hit you on the back.
  • Silent, unable to cough or speak — that is the emergency. Call 911 and leave the line open even if you cannot speak. Get to a door and unlock it.
  • Prevention beats all of it: sit down to eat, small bites, and not while lying down, walking around, or laughing at a screen.

Watch, then answer this

Somebody is coughing loudly and cannot stop. What do you do?

Step 3 of 3

Go and find the hazards now

  • Go and look for these today, while nothing is wrong: shoes or bags on the stairs, wet or slippery floors.
  • Overloaded outlets and trailing extension cords. Anything heavy on a high shelf.
  • Medicines and cleaning things left out.
  • Then tell a parent what you found — that is a genuinely useful thing for a nine-year-old to hand an adult.

Watch, then answer this

Which of these is not a hazard?

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.

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.

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Read what happens in each clip instead

Step 1 — What you can make on your own. Two shelves, effectively: fruit, cereal, a made sandwich, carrots and dip, yogurt, crackers — then the ones that wait, with the frozen chicken fingers held up last. No cooking happens on screen.

Step 2 — Sit down, small bites. Brandon eating properly at the table — sitting down, small bites, unhurried — then getting up to unlock the front door and pick up a phone. Prevention is shown; a choking child deliberately is not.

Step 3 — The walk-round. A child walking the house pointing things out to camera: shoes on the stairs, a wet patch, an overloaded outlet, something heavy on a high shelf, medicine left out. Ends handing the list to a parent.

Every film on this page is narrated and carries a caption track, supplied as a sidecar and never burned into the picture.

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