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

Sun Jan 20 22:03:24 UTC 2013

There are clippers with guides sold in the infant section of most stores 
like Wal-Mart.  I don't know if they would work well for older children, 
since I've always done fine without them.

Jo Elizabeth

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may 
kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at 
evening.--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
-----Original Message----- 
From: Steve Jacobson
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2013 11:04 AM
To: Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] Questions on how to clip finger/toe nails

Jeri,

I am not aware of nail clippers with guides, but I have not researched such 
a thing, either.  I think it would be hard to make a guide that would work, 
though.  Still, it would not surprise me if there are special
clippers for babies.

If one gets clippers where one of the cutting edges extends out further than 
the other, and if one makes certain the edge that extends out the most is 
under the nail, that provides some protection.  It is hard to
know if that is the case, though, when buying clippers and they are sealed 
in a package.

On another topic, I have known other parents who have gone the route of 
biting off nails and that has worked for them.  Unfortunately, that isn't 
something I ever felt comfortable doing.  For one thing, the nails
trap some pretty gross stuff, and teeth don't cut that well in some cases..

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 06:13:33 -0700, Jeri Milton wrote:

>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
>>Sent from my iPhone
>>(623) 565-9357

>>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
>>>> Blog: http://thebt.net
>>>> iMessage/Email: theblindtech at gmail.com
>>>> Phone: (623) 565-9357
>>>>
>>>> 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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