I have no memory of December 27. 2015; but I can tell you this much ̶̶̶̶̶̶̶̶ ̶ it was the day my five-year-old son, Dane, saved my life. All the practicing Dane and I had done came together that day. Teaching him to learn our home address, how to use the phone, how to dial 911, and how to answer the questions a 911 operator might ask him if he did have to call ̶̶ ̶ paid off.
At about 3:30 that afternoon, I wasn’t feeling well and had been lying on the sofa. At some point, I went to the bathroom and it was there that I fell down and went unconsciousness. When I fell, my face hit the floor, causing two of my teeth to break off. And my body blocked the door.
Dane must have heard me fall, because he came to the bathroom and called out to me. When I did not answer him, he looked in through a gap in the door and saw the blood from my injured mouth. That’s when his “training” kicked in. First, Dane phoned my mother ̶ ̶ his grandma ̶ ̶ and when Grandma didn’t answer the phone, he called 911. Dane remained calm, stayed on the line and told the operator what had happened and where we lived. He turned on the outside light and opened the door for police and paramedics (医务人员), and then led them to me.
Recently, emergency responders in Taber, the town where we live, honored Dane at his school during an assembly (集会) of his kindergarten classmates and other students. The Taber Police Service praised my son and give him a certificate (证书) in recognition of his “knowing exactly what to do in an emergency situation.”
Dane saved my life, and he is my angel! If I had not taught my son how to react if there was ever an emergency in our home, I am quite certain that I would not be alive now. I strongly suggest other parents understand the life-and -death importance of taking the time to teach their kids these skills, too. Children can learn these things at a very young age. I know this first-hand, as Dane was three years old when I started teaching him.
【小题1】According to the text, Dane________.| A．won a certificate for excellent test scores |
| B．taught himself emergency knowledge at 3 |
| C．once saved his father with his mother’s help |
| D．began to learn emergency knowledge in 2013 |
| A．hard-working but proud |
| B．honest and careful |
| C．skilled and calm |
| D．shy and helpful |
| A．Emergency does happen often in our everyday life. |
| B．Parents should teach their young children how to deal with emergency. |
| C．Parents must learn to be paramedics before learning emergency knowledge. |
| D．It doesn’t take much time and patience to teach children emergency knowledge. |
