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

Sun Jan 20 13:13:33 UTC 2013

Hi Steve. 
Do you know if they make nail clippers that have a guide on them so you
don't clip too far down? I know they make those fat QTips so that you don't
go too deep into the ear. We've all heard how those are bad for cleaning
ears. Just wondering If they made a safer nail clipper as well.  Thanks. 

Jeri

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Steve
Jacobson
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2013 7:39 PM
To: Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] Questions on how to clip finger/toe nails

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>
>> To: "Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 12:56 PM
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] Questions on how to clip finger/toe nails
>> 
>> 
>>> 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.
>>> Gabe Vega - Sent from my MacbookAir
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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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