Posted by By CARLY STERN / DAILYMAIL.COM on Sep 6th 2020
At last, a reason to be GRATEFUL for Baby Shark! Creative dad teaches his two-year-old daughter to perform CPR by using the VERY catchy children's song to time her chest compressions
At last, a reason to be GRATEFUL for Baby Shark! Creative dad teaches his two-year-old daughter to perform CPR by using the VERY catchy children's song to time her chest compressions
By CARLY STERN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
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- Chris Pietroforte, a dad and CPR instructor in Tulare, California, taught his three-year-old daughter Saige how to perform CPR when she was two
- To keep the right beat for compressions, some people will do them to the tune of a song that's 100 BMP
- Chris used the popular kids' song Baby Shark
- Saige now helps Chris teach other people and he revealed she sometimes does better than adults
Daddy's helper! The little girl now helps her dad teach CPR classes
A former EMT has taught his toddler daughter how to administer CPR — with a little help from the popular children's song Baby Shark.
Chris Pietroforte, a dad and CPR instructor in Tulare, California, has proven that no one is ever too young to know how to save a life. For proof, there is his three-year-old daughter Saige.
From the time Saige was two, she has been able to properly perform CPR, and has demonstrated on a test-dummy in a video that Chris shared online.
Watch the video here:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6787691...
Chris posted the video on the Central Valley CPR Facebook page a month ago, captioning it: 'If this beautiful 2 year old can learn CPR/AED, what’s stopping you?'
In the clip, the little girl is dressed in a matching pink T-shirt and pants, with her blonde hair piled into a lopsided ponytail on her head.
As a tape gives verbal instructions, she performs chest compressions and breates into a dummy's mouth.
She clearly knows what she is doing, and her dad doesn't need to give her any help.
Chris explained to Inside Edition that his trick was picking a song Saige likes so she knows what beat to give the compressions to — and Baby Shark fit the bill.
'So she’s in there and I tell people that if they can’t outdo her, they won’t pass, and that’s actually happened a couple times,' he said
'Any song that’s between 100 to 120 bpm, you can do it to,' he told Inside Edition.
That means Stayin' Alive by the BeeGees is ago-to — but the toddler needed a tune she was familiar with, hence the kiddie earworm
Saige is so adept that she now helps her dad teach adults how to do CPR.
'She actually goes to all my classes when I teach and she demonstrates how to do it,' he said.
'So she’s in there and I tell people that if they can’t outdo her, they won’t pass, and that’s actually happened a couple times. I had someone drop out of an EMT class because she outdid him and he was embarrassed and he left because he didn’t wanna be outdone by a two-year-old.
'My goal is to get as many people out there trained. The more people trained, the better it is out there for society,' he added.
'Any song that’s between 100 to 120 bpm, you can do it to,' he told Inside Edition.
That means Stayin' Alive by the BeeGees is ago-to — but the toddler needed a tune she was familiar with, hence the kiddie earworm
Saige is so adept that she now helps her dad teach adults how to do CPR.
'She actually goes to all my classes when I teach and she demonstrates how to do it,' he said.
'So she’s in there and I tell people that if they can’t outdo her, they won’t pass, and that’s actually happened a couple times. I had someone drop out of an EMT class because she outdid him and he was embarrassed and he left because he didn’t wanna be outdone by a two-year-old.
'My goal is to get as many people out there trained. The more people trained, the better it is out there for society,' he added.
There's also Stayin' Alive by the Bee Gees, Work It by Missy Elliot, and Heart and Soul by T'Pau.
But some of the tracks that especially tickled Twitter users were the ones you'd least like to hear someone humming while resuscitating you.
The list includes Just Dance by Lady Gaga, Sorry by Justin Bieber, Say You'll be There by the Spice Girls, MMMBop by Hanson, Gives You Hell by the All-American Rejects, Fly by Sugar Ray, You Can't Hurry Love by Phil Collins, Girls Just Want to Have Fun by Cyndi Lauper, Hey, Soul Sister by Train, and This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race by Fall Out Boy.
Other surprising songs on the list are Rock Your Body by Justin Timberlake, Fast Car by Tracy Chapman, Hips Don't Lie by Shakira, Notorious B.I.G by the man himself, What's Going On by Marvin Gay, and Walk Like an Egyptian by The Bangles.
Dancing Queen by ABBA, One Week by the Barenaked Ladies, Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon's History of Rap, Rumour Has It by Adele, Sweet Home Alabama by Lynryd Skynyrd, and Body Movin' by the Beastie Boys also have the right tempo.
Important skills! Chris Pietroforte, a dad and CPR instructor in Tulare, California, taught his daughter how to perform CPR
Wow! Three-year-old Sage could do CPR from the time she was two (pictured)
Genius! Chest compressions have to be timed out a particular way, so Chris taught Saige to do it to the beat of Baby Shark
Make sense: Baby Shark's has the right rhythm for chest compressions and it's a song Saige knows
Pick one! The playlist includes several very appropriately-named song choices, as well as a fair few tracks you'd likely not want to hear someone humming while resuscitating you
