This is an amazing 911 story that I saw on NBC Dateline maybe 2 weeks ago.
There was a couple with a 3 year old daughter. Dad worked, so Mom stayed home with the little girl. Mom had a condition where she would sometimes have a life threatening seizure (I think it was epilepsy, but I may be wrong).
Anyhow, Mom talked to the pre-school teacher of the daughter to see if there was a way in which the kids could be taught to dial "911" and if they would know when it was appropriate, etc.
So the pre-school teacher wrote a song to the tune of "If You're Happy and You Know It, Clap Your Hands". It went like this:
When someone needs help, I must dial 911!
When someone needs help, I must dial 911!
I dial 9, and then a 1, and then a 1 and help will come,
When someone needs help, I must dial 911!
Then the teacher took a phone (unplugged of course) and to teach the children how to actually dial 911. She painted a dot of green nail polish on the "9" (Green for GO)
and then 2 dots of red polish on the "1" (Red for Stop, Stop).
Well, of this effort paid off, because one day, Mom really did have a seizure. The little girl called 911 and said, "When are you going to come and get my Mommy?" and then after some back and forth with the 911 dispatcher, the little girl blurted out, "She has a seizure!"
It was so amazing to watch this story unfold. The ambulance was there within minutes and Mom ended up being ok (and she would *not* have been ok, if there'd been a delay in getting help).
Now, that 911 lesson is a part of that community's school curriculum.
So amazing!
