[blparent] Questions on how to clip finger/toe nails

[Rhonda Lewis-Kubehl]

Hi, my son is 4, and up to now, my friend use to clip his finger/toe nails.
my friend use to clip his nails.
Now, my friend is working long days 7 days a week, I have to clip them.
I'm afraid of clipping them too low, or enhurting him.
I tried filing his nails, but he hates the texture of the filer, so we 
don't do that anymore.

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Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment 
that will never be again. And what do we teach our children? We teach 
them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of 
France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to 
each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are 
unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another 
child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you 
move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You 
have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow 
up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must work, 
we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children." ~ Pablo 
Picasso I always personally reference how Jesus treated his disciples - 
a group of unruly, uneducated, fishermen. He never yelled, hit, punched, 
belittled...yet they came to know and love the Lord with their entire 
beings - all through his gentle, firm, loving teachings. That is how I 
want to parent my children."