Three tips - how to teach your child to call the emergency number 112

Thomas Johansson at SOS Alarm's press brief emphasizes that alarm calls from children are taken just as seriously as calls from adults:

- Unfortunately, we have no statistics on how many children call in. In health care cases, you usually take a social security number on the person in need, but not on the caller, he notes.

In many ways, children are good contributors and easy to communicate with, Thomas Johansson says:

- They often keep calm and focus on the conversation with the SOS operator even though the situation around it is often stressful and serious.

When talking to a child who is upset, it is often good to praise and say that the child is good, he emphasizes:

- Children, just like adults, sometimes need to calm down when they call. Then it can be about giving them a job, talking and asking concrete, tangible questions.

SOS Alarm has three tips that you usually give parents about how to teach their children to call 112:

- Show your child where you usually have your mobile phone.

- Show how to dial 112 without unlocking the phone.

- Talk to your child about what information the alarm operator needs, such as name and address.