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

[Mark Feliz]

As mentioned already on this strand nail trimming is very much dueable
by a blind parent. I would encourage you to get together with another
blind parent who can show you--hands on how it is done. However since
we all have varying degrees of confidence I fully understand your
hesitancy. Is there a neighbor you can ask to help you out? I am not
aware of any clippers designed with a guide. Since your son is four he
is now able to help you. He can tell you if the clippers are beginning
to pinch his skin before it does any damage. Just go vary slow and I
bet you can do it.

Good luck and do not get discouraged.

Mark Feliz

On 1/19/13, peggy <pshald at neb.rr.com> wrote:
>     Until my kids are old enough to cut their own, I bit them off, gross,
> maybe but it works and I for one am not going to use clippers and cut too
> short b/c I know how bad that can hurt!!  Otherwise find someone to cut them
>
> ... I don't think once in a while asking for help with something your not
> comfortable with makes us bad parents ... I have three kids and I've never,
>
> ever used the clippers on them, it's just something I don't feel comfortable
>
> with and something I can handle by biting their nails or by asking someone
> to cut them for me.  Helpless I am not but somethings I don't mind asking
> for help on and this is one of them.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rhonda Lewis-Kubehl
> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 12:34 PM
> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: [blparent] Questions on how to clip finger/toe nails
>
> 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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> 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
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> move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You
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> 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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