This module gives you the foundational knowledge to understand why kids get sick, so that you can apply your critical thinking skills to any sickness situation. 

✅  Understanding a child's immune system.

✅ How to support your child's immunity to minimise the risk of getting sick in the first place. 

✅ Understand the key differences between adults and children and why they need a different approach to healthcare. 

DOWNLOADABLES:

📄 Cheat Sheet: Preventing Sickness and supporting little immune systems.

It's not your job to diagnose your child. It's your job to be able to recognise symptoms and know when it's time to seek medical attention. In this module, you will learn how to recognise, understand and troubleshoot through the 7 key symptoms of sickness in children (AKA the symptoms that can be found in literally any childhood illness):

✅ Fevers (including Febrile Seizures).

✅ Rashes & the Skin (including dangerous and infectious rashes). 

✅ Vomiting.

✅ Poo (including diarrhoea and constipation).

✅ Dehydration.

✅ Difficulty breathing AKA respiratory distress.

✅ Behaviour and pain.

You'll also learn how to lean-in to your intuition and gut instincts to make safe and sensible decisions for your sick child without freaking out. 

DOWNLOADABLES:

📄 Cheat Sheet: Normal breathing and heart rates in children.

📄 Cheat Sheet: Recognising and Assessing Pain in Children.

📄 Fever FAQs

📄 Rash Stash AKA your go-to reference guide on common childhood rashes.  

📄 Mindset Tips AKA your worry-helper to avoid panic-spiralling. 

This module dives into the nitty gritty practicalities of caring for a sick child. Learn exactly what you're going to do to keep your child safe at home, and avoid those late-night panic-fuelled hospital visits.

✅ Assess your child using The 3-step Sick Framework so that you never miss anything serious.

✅ Learn how to keep your child hydrated at home (even if your child stubbornly refuses to drink). 

✅ Learn what medications are useful in keeping your sick child comfortable. From pain to blocked noses to sore throats and night-time coughing, it's all in here.

✅ How to manage rest and sleep when sick. Understand how sleepy is too sleepy for a sick child. 

✅ Symptom Tracking to understand how long is too long when your child is sick. 

✅ How to navigate illness when you're sick, solo or parenting multiple unwell children at the same time. 

✅ Infection Control AKA how to stop everyone else getting sick.

DOWNLOADABLES:

📄 Cheat Sheet: The Sick Framework.

📄 Cheat Sheet: Red Flags of sickness in children.

📄 Nurse Tip: Dehydration Tracker.

📄 Nurse Tip: Convincing your sick child to drink.

📄 Cheat Sheet: Trial of Fluids for home.

📄 Nurse Tip: Medicine administration tips and tricks.

📄 Checklist: Hospital Go-Bag.

📄 Checklist: Medicine and first-aid Kit.

Know when it's time to seek medical attention without hesitation.

❌ No more second-guessing yourself. 

❌ No more worrying about wasting someone's time. 

❌ No more waiting until your child is "really sick" to be sure. 

✅ Troubleshoot your options: Make the best choice between seeing your local Doctor, go to Urgent Care, Emergency or calling an ambulance.

✅ Communicate effectively with healthcare professionals.

✅ Advocate for your child and be heard! 

DOWNLOADABLES:

📄 Cheat Sheet: The Decision-Tree Guide (your go-to guide to troubleshoot through when and where to seek medical attention).

📄 Cheat Sheet: Suggested Questions to ask your healthcare team.

📄 Cheat Sheet: Escalating your concerns with healthcare professionals. 

Practice and consolidate your learnings with these real-world case studies.

✅ Gastro.

✅ Bronchiolitis AKA common respiratory viral illness.

✅ Hand, foot and mouth disease. 

✅ Meningitis AKA serious bacterial illness. 

Take my hand as we walk through these common sickness scenario's to see how to:

→ Apply The Sick Framework to assess for red flags.

→ Practically (and realistically) care for a child with these symptoms.

→ Recognise when it's time to seek medical attention. 

📱 24/7 access to our private community. This is where you have direct access to Penny to ask questions, seek clarification and gain utter clarity so that you can feel 100% in control when the inevitable sick happens.  This is accessible via desktop AND app. 

⌛️ Lifetime access to the course modules.

✅ Unlimited free access to the course content AND all future updates to the course materials. 

📄 Downloadable PDFs, cheat sheets and practical tools to help you navigate any sickness situation. These downloadables are just like having me by your side gently guiding and supporting your decision-making at home.