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

Tue Jan 22 17:24:00 UTC 2013

Yup!

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: Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC)
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 7:15 AM
To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [blparent] Questions on how to clip finger/toe nails

So this guy goes out to eat and the waitress says to him "Our special 
tonight is cow tongue".
The guy gets this look of absolute disgust on his face and says "That's 
gross, I'd never eat anything that came out of the mouth of an animal!".
The waitress says "Well, how about a nice plate of eggs then"

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jeri Milton
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2013 3:30 PM
To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [blparent] Questions on how to clip finger/toe nails

Hi Steve.

Well, it was just a thought anyway. These days there are so many specially
designed gadgets out there, you just never know. It may be worth researching
sometime. You're right, finger nails are full of bacteria, so is the mouth.
I always washed their hands afterword's. Luckily, my daughter, being the
girly girl that she is, loves having her nails filed if the edges are
jagged. I don't even bite them much anymore now that she's older. We have
nail beauty sessions is what we call them.

Jeri

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Steve
Jacobson
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2013 11:05 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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