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When teaching first aid to a group of Webelos Scouts, you will hold their attention much better if you appeal to their appreciation for the gross. For example, when teaching rescue breathing (i.e., mouth-to-mouth resuscitation):

• Good: “Before giving the breath, pinch the nose shut or the air won’t go in the lungs.”
• Better: “Before giving the breath, pinch the nose shut or the air will come back out through the victim’s nose.”
• Best: If you don’t pinch the nose shut, as soon as you blow you’ll get his snot all over your cheek.”

You’ll also have great success if you use terms like “spurting fountains of blood” to describe arterial bleeding. Trust me on this.