00:00Hello caller? Hello? Hello? Hello, is mummy there? Put mummy on the phone. Take the phone to mummy or daddy.
00:13What's your name? James. James? James, where's mummy? Is she awake?
00:27No. Is she asleep? Yeah. Can you wake her up? Is she waking up? No. No. Can you shake, mummy?
00:42Can you shake her to try and wake her up? Is she not waking up? No. Can you try and
00:49tickle mummy? See whether you can wake her up?
00:53Are mummy's eyes closed? Are her eyes closed? Wait. What's going on, love? It's the police. Your child's phoned police.
01:05I think I passed out. I don't know. All right. All right. It's OK. I'm going to get some help.
01:31I was quite unwell in pregnancy and on one of the days where I had a little bit of relief,
01:35we visited the National Emergency Services Museum in Sheffield.
01:41I was listening. And then it was there that they've got a section where children can use magnetic numbers to
01:46learn how to dial 999, but also 101 as well.
01:50So that's when we first had the conversation. And I said to my husband, I said, this is a fantastic
01:54opportunity to teach James who to call, what to do if there was ever an emergency and he needed something,
02:01especially when I'm on my own with him at home when I was pregnant.
02:04So literally, we didn't even get home. We was in the car on the way back and I was I
02:08was telling him, showing him what to do on my phone over the time.
02:11We did lots of role play of it, lots of recapping, things like that.
02:14Every so often, I kind of like, whizzed him, James, what's our address? And get him to kind of repeat
02:19it back to me and things like that.
02:20Please go say it right now.
02:23But, yeah, that's pretty much how we ended up achieving it.
02:26I think the impressive part, obviously, is the fact that he was able to recognise that something was wrong and
02:32be able to have the confidence in that moment as well,
02:34when he was feeling probably so worried and scared to actually be able to follow them as well.
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