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

[Steve Jacobson]

Gabe,

This has nothing to do with parenting, this is not a grammar list.  

Regarding another note, while I don't want to see anybody put down, comparing having someone else cut fingernails to having someone else teach your 
kids is a bit of a stretch in my opinion.  However, not every parent is good at all of the same things.  My intent in my earlier note is to lay out some possible 
approaches to think about and try, and that's the kind of thing this list is for.  We stretch one another by hearing how others do things we perhaps have 
been hesitant to try.  It makes us all just a little better.  That doesn't mean that every one of us will necessarily try everything that we see here, but we 
need to think about our reasons for not trying.  I did cut my kids fingernails and also trimmed our cat's claws.  Trimming the cat's claws was actually a bit 
more scarey in some ways.  But most of you could cook circles around me.  Still, I know I could cook better if I had to, and in my mind, it would be nice if 
we could encourage people to feel they could cut fingernails or toenails in an emergency at least when nobody is available.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 11:47:41 -0700, Gabe Vega Via Iphone4S wrote:

>You apparently don't do punctuation either.

>Gabe Vega 
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>On Jan 19, 2013, at 10:45 AM, "Dianna Alley" <dianna24 at earthlink.net> wrote:

>> well I don't think anyone should putting her down for not cutting his nails I do not do it either and I do not care what people think because I am going to 
do what I feel safe doing  for my child sighted people do not do everything for their children either such as education most sighted folks send kids to 
school their fore they are not doing everything for their children and they also work so some one else is caring for the children why they are not around.
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gabe Vega" <theblindtech at gmail.com>
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>> Subject: Re: [blparent] Questions on how to clip finger/toe nails
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>> 
>>> um, you haven't clipped your own son's nails in 4 years? you have really relied on some one else for 4 whole years. um. ok? I would say if you are 
comfortable doing it, teach him how to do it. I am serious. He won't cut himself. at least not on purpose, or if he did it once, he wouldn't do it again. where 
is dad, why doesn't he cut the nails.
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>>> On Jan 18, 2013, at 11:34 AM, Rhonda Lewis-Kubehl <motherkubehl at aol.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 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.
>>>> 
>>>> -- Kubehl Christian Academy
>>>> 
>>>> 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."
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