Babysittingclass.com offers a complete course in babysitting, like one you'd find at a local community center. Our online class teaches babysitters to be proactive in solving problems and interactive with their charges.

We teach appropriate activities for different age groups. We give students insights into child care and discipline. We teach them to support the routines and values parents have set in place. We cover the Business of Babysitting and teach students to evaluate and use their gifts and talents in the Child Care field. Our encyclopedia with over 60 articles discusses how to care for all kinds of children, including those with special needs such as ADD, Diabetes and more.

Safety Information we cover includes: Accident, Choking and Drowning Prevention; Injury and Poison Prevention; Childproofing an Area, Identifying Suffocation and Strangulation Hazards; Preventing Cuts, Falls, Fires, Burns; Establishing Fire Safety Exits, Prevent Bites, Break-ins and Stings and more.

How does your class differ from a Community Center class?

At Babysittingclass.com you get:

1) Personal Attention
Learning the material in the class is an important first step. But what happens after the class ends? This is where our class differs from anyone else's. M-F, we offer Live Help to answer any questions you have about the class and the course material via chat or email. It's like having your own personal Babysitting Instructor ready to help when you need it. You have a whole year from your date of registration to access the latest online course material and use our Live Help feature. That continuing personal attention is something local classes usually can't offer.

2) Our Class is Only A Click Away
The course material is online 24/7, so you can fit the class around your schedule. You can leave and come back, start and stop or review what you've learned whenever you like.

3) A Yearlong Pass
From the time you register, you have a whole year to access our site. That yearlong pass is like having a class that updates itself all the time with the very latest safety info.

4) Up to Date Materials and Chapter Notes
Chapters, encyclopedia and testing material are reviewed quarterly. At the end of each chapter, there are notes for you to download so you can make and take your own "babysitting journal" of suggestions out on jobs.

5) Designed By Real Babysitters
The safety, security and business problems sitters face today change constantly. That's why our online materials are so frequently updated. We're the only course with material designed with the input of over 200 working babysitters.Find out more about who created this class and why right here.

6) Access to the Babysitter's Encyclopedia: from A-Z, this encyclopedia is all about hands on solutions to problems that a Babysitter may face. New articles are added all the time!

We are a program provider for many Girl Scout Councils and the Cities of Oceanside and Vista, in California.

That means our certificate program has been approved by their program departments, reviewed by nurses, EMTs, and public safety educators.

Our class also meets the education requirements for some states for Child Care workers. You can find out the requirements for Day Care and Child Care workers in each state here.

Our class does not cover CPR or First Aid Training. We do have a separate course that supplements our Babysitting Class material. We are affiliates of Safetycampus.com where students can take CPR and First Aid online.

The Problem:

What are students supposed to do when they can't find enough time to get to a babysitting class? What happens when that class ends and they need more information?

The Solution:
www.babysittingclass.com

Students can get the information they need to handle the challenges of Babysitting online! Forget about drive times and scheduling hassles. This "learn at your own pace" course is online when students are --24/7. And with our "Live Help" feature, we're online to answer your questions.

Babysitters just starting out
Youth Groups
Middle School and High School Students
Stay at Home Moms who'd like to babysit children
Childcare workers wanting education credits
Experienced sitters
Parents wondering what to expect from their sitters
New parents
Siblings getting a new brother or sister
Siblings caring for a brother or sister at home
Recreation assistants
Students who are childcare majors

1. Signup to Get Your Registration Number
Click here to buy one online from us. You may also mail in your request.

2. Register for Class
Once you have a registration number, you must register here online. Registration tells us the name of the student so we can create your Personalized Certificate. We also confirm the mailing address so we can send the Certificate and Babysitting Business Kit to the correct address.

3. START the class. There are six chapters. Each is about an hour long. They are:

Planning Prevents Problems
Safety and Security
Activities: Playtime you can Manage!
Child Care and Discipline
Babysitting as a Business: Getting, Keeping, Creating Jobs
Beyond Babysitting: Mother's Helper, Party Helper

4. At the end of each chapter, you'll find:

A summary of the important points
Classnotes to download for that chapter
A list and links to Babysitting Encyclopedia articles mentioned
Links to great books and resources on that topic
A link to the Chapter Review Test for that chapter

Remember, you can leave each chapter and come back to it whenever your schedule allows.

5. Chapter Order

Be sure to go through chapters 1-6 in order, beginning with #1, Childcare Basics, and ending with 6, Beyond Babysitting. (Be sure to take the quizzes. They're fun and will help when taking the Chapter Tests)

On the review page (last page of each chapter) click on the NEXT link to go to the Chapter Review Test for that chapter. All of the questions are based on the material you've just read.

After you've passed all six Chapter Review tests, you can take the Final Mastery Test. You have one year from registration to review each topic and take the tests as many times as you need to pass.

6. Get Your Certificate and Business Kit

After you've taken the Mastery Test and passed it, our program automatically alerts Customer Service to send your personalized Babysitter's Certificate and Business Kit to the name and address you gave us upon class registration.

Yes. We offer a 30% discount (12.50 per student) to anyone who buys five or more memberships at one time. We also give away a free leader's pass for each set of group memberships sold. We offer step by step curriculum and enrichment activity guides. Designed by Master Teacher, Natalie Wadell, our guide includes for each of our six Chapters: Outlines, Overheads, Lessons and Activities, Roleplaying Scenarios, Questions, Homework, Games and Puzzles, and more supplemental activities in Word and as PDF files to download and use with your class or group.
To find out more about group memberships, please click here for details.

Yes. We offer a 30% discount (12.50 per student) to anyone who buys five or more memberships at one time. We also give away a free leader's pass for each set of group memberships sold. We offer step by step curriculum and enrichment activity guides. Designed by Master Teacher, Natalie Wadell, our guide includes for each of our six Chapters: Outlines, Overheads, Lessons and Activities, Roleplaying Scenarios, Questions, Homework, Games and Puzzles, and more supplemental activities in Word and as PDF files to download and use with your class or group.
To find out more about group memberships, please click here for details.

No, students can leave each chapter and come back to it whenever their schedule allows.

Our quizzes and Mastery test are stress free because if you miss a question, you get immediate feedback.

If a student doesn't pass the final Mastery Test, they also get immediate feedback about the questions they missed, and exactly what class material they need to study. Students have up to a year to retake the test and pass it.

This class and the Babysitter's Business Kit was designed with the input of over 200 babysitters. It runs best using Internet Explorer. For best results, you'll need:

Internet access with a 28.8 or faster modem.
Internet Explorer 5.0 and above - available FREE for download
AOL 5.0 and above

Note: Using AOL on a Mac? For best results download that free copy of Internet Explorer. You will probably have to resize your computer screen size to 1024 X 760 so that you can see all the content.

AOL Users: If you log in with an incorrect password, you will have to close your AOL browser before logging in again. AOL's server stores all passcodes, even incorrect ones.

If you have any questions about our course, an instructor is available online, M-F during these hours to answer your questions live:

Pacific Standard Time: 2pm-6:00pm
Mountain Standard Time: 3pm-7:00pm
Central Standard Time: 4pm-8:00pm
Eastern Standard Time: 5pm-9:00pm
Atlantic Standard Time: 6pm- 10:00pm

You can also send an email here, to customerservice@babysittingclass.com
Please include your first and last name, Invoice Number and detailed question with your email or phone call. Good Customer Service is very important to us. We do our best to help students as quickly as possible.

Question too detailed for email? Here's an emergency number for you. Please call 760-631-1498, M-F PST if you have any questions. If our Customer Service representatives are unavailable, please leave a message with your phone number and we'll call you back.

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