Quick First Aid test for you…..
What should you do if your child falls over and scrapes their knee?
a) Pick them up and give them a hug.
b) Tell them they’ll be fine and get back to Twitter.
c) Tell them they should have been more careful and send them back to play.
d) Place a wet paper towel over their knee and tell them to hold it there for five minutes.
What should you do if your children bang heads and one of them develops a rather large bump on their forehead?
a) Pop an ice pack on the bump.
b) Get them a mirror so they can see the egg on their head.
c) Shout at the other one as it was obviously their fault.
d) Place a wet paper towel over the bump and tell them to hold it there for five minutes.
What’s the best way to deal with a stubbed toe?
a) Swear very loudly until the pain starts to subside.
b) Bandage your toe up and limp round the house trying to get as much sympathy as possible.
c) Deal with it like a grown up and share your pain with Twitter.
d) Place a wet paper towel over the injured toe and hold it there for five minutes.
You may be surprised to learn that the simple first aid solution for each of the above scenarios is:
d) Place a wet paper towel over the injured area and leave it there for five minutes 
Or at least that’s what my children’s school think which means that whenever anything happens in our house, one or both kids rush for a wet paper towel. I had a sneezing fit earlier on and Master Frugal brought me a wet paper towel (actually, toilet roll as we don’t have paper towels lol) to make me all better.
And just in case you don’t know how to make a wet paper towel, you can find out exactly how you do it here. Be warned though, it’s quite a complex process you know….
Great stuff. Well, well, I too find it easy and efficient to go for wet tissues when there isn't paper towels. It actually works; great you shared quite an educating ideas, keep it up!
Ha ha now I know what to use if I run out of paper towels x
They still use the wet paper towel solution? Blimey! Thought they might have advanced a bit since i left school 6 years ago! Having said that my mums a trained first aider and ex nurse but in her first aid role she is allowed to do very little now due to lawsuits etc and the fear it has put in authorities for taking responsibility!
Thats exactly the reason I think – too scared in case they get into trouble. The kids aren't even allowed to get hugs anymore which upsets me as if they fall over or hurt themselves, sometimes a hug will make it all better won't it?
Hilarious!
Hmm, what can I say? Bump on the head at our school we have to apply cold gel packs and make sure we write out an accident slip which must have another slip with it regarding bumped heads! If it's an egg like lump parents would be phoned and asked to collect them. We don't use wet paper towels for first aid but we do use baby wipes for invisible grazes for the little ones – do something like that and it makes them happy, worse cuts and grazes are dealt with using proper medical wipes and plasters or dressings applied. We take our first aid seriously and have been trained but do know the children who just want a gel pack, plaster or whatever!!!!
Oh our school don't do anything like that – everything literally is a wet paper towel. The dinner ladies aren't even allowed to give hugs any more. Your school seem much more sensible.
OMG my ribs hurt from laughing: I'd totally forgotten until I read this post that the wet paper towel/flannel was the First Aid in our house growing up. I'm in heaven!!
Ha ha they're magic you know.