[blparent] blparent Digest, Vol 124, Issue 6
Bernadette Jacobs
bernienfb75 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 11 21:33:15 UTC 2014
I actually had a babysitter who was very good. I used to pay her extra sometimes. I have had a neighbor come in and do it as well. Every so often, I might have someone from church do it as well. It was a matter of whoever I could get at the time I needed it
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> On Sep 11, 2014, at 4:30 PM, "Star Gazer" <pickrellrebecca at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If I can ask, how did you find such a person to trim nails?
> Was it a manicurist? I've heard some of them come to your house.
>
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> From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Bernadette
> Jacobs via blparent
> Sent: Sunday, September 7, 2014 10:57 AM
> To: blparent at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [blparent] blparent Digest, Vol 124, Issue 6
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> Good morning everyone: Bernie here: yes, I'm a wuss. Call me a wuss. I have
> always hired somebody to come and clip my kids nails when they were little
> if Bill was not around. Yes, I'm terribly afraid to do that myself. But now
> the children are old enough that they can clip their own. My daughter bites
> hers. You think she must've gotten this from my mother-in-law. My
> mother-in-law does the same thing. She always used to bite the kids nails.
> Somehow that just turns my stomach. That's all I can say for that. Have a
> great day exclamation exclamation
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>> 1. thanks for the ideas for buying and selling used braille and
>> other products (dawn stumpner)
>> 2. Re: clipping Fingernails (Nevzat Adil)
>> 3. Re: clipping Fingernails (Judy Jones)
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>> Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2014 07:08:55 -0500
>> From: dawn stumpner <dawn205120 at gmail.com>
>> To: blparent at nfbnet.org
>> Subject: [blparent] thanks for the ideas for buying and selling used
>> braille and other products
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>> Thanks, Sharon and Judy erthe great ideas of where I can find an old
>> braille Scrabble board and look through other used things. I hadn't
>> known about blindattic, and for some reason, I hadn't thought of ebay.
>> Dawn
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>> Message: 2
>> Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2014 07:20:12 -0500
>> From: Nevzat Adil <nevzatadil at gmail.com>
>> To: Jo Elizabeth Pinto <jopinto at msn.com>, Blind Parents Mailing List
>> <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] clipping Fingernails
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>> I am totally blind and I used to clip my baby's nails. Of course, I
>> needed to be very careful not to hurt her. With my right hand I would
>> hold the clipper and my left hand would guide it on the nail in such a
>> way that I would not clip the skin. I made sure that I did not clip
>> them deep and if there were still rough edges I would file them.
>> Biting her nails never occured to me. I must admit I was somewhat
>> nervous clipping someone else's nails, but my wife who had some vision
>> then delegated that task to me. Thankfully, I no longer have to do
>> that task as my daughter is now eleven and capable of clipping her
>> own.
>> Nevzat Adil
>>
>>> On 9/5/14, Jo Elizabeth Pinto via blparent <blparent at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>> I didn't like biting my daughter's fingernails. When she was a baby, I
> used
>>>
>>> to wait till after I gave her a bath and her nails were soft and pliable,
>>> then gently peel them back once they were long enough for me to get my
> own
>>> nail under. It didn't cause her any pain, and the nails came off
> smoothly
>>> all in one piece because they were damp after the bath and easy to work
>>> with. Then I'd just file any rough corners with a fine grit emery board
> or
>>>
>>> nail file. She still sometimes lets me do her nails that way, although
>>> she's getting big enough now that it isn't as easy, and they need to be
> cut
>>>
>>> with the clippers more often.
>>>
>>> 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: Judy Jones via blparent
>>> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2014 9:42 PM
>>> To: Tara Briggs ; Blind Parents Mailing List
>>> Subject: Re: [blparent] clipping Fingernails
>>>
>>> I had a sighted parent suggest that to me, because she did it with her
>>> babies. We never had to do it very much.
>>>
>>> I guess check the nails and if one seems longer than it should be, try
>>> again.
>>>
>>> Judy
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Tara Briggs via blparent
>>> Sent: Friday, September 5, 2014 9:11 PM
>>> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
>>> Subject: [blparent] clipping Fingernails
>>>
>>> Hi all, does anyone have any advice for how to clip it babies
> fingernails?
>>> My friend who is blind bites her kids fingernails. However, I feel like I
>>> don't get them very short when I do that. Any help would be great!
>>> Thanks
>>> Tara
>>>
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>> Message: 3
>> Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2014 10:58:33 -0600
>> From: "Judy Jones" <jtj1 at cableone.net>
>> To: "Nevzat Adil" <nevzatadil at gmail.com>, "Blind Parents Mailing List"
>> <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] clipping Fingernails
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>> Yes, the biting nails we only did when the girls were young babies. AFter
>
>> that we clipped.
>>
>> Judy
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Nevzat Adil via blparent
>> Sent: Saturday, September 6, 2014 6:20 AM
>> To: Jo Elizabeth Pinto ; Blind Parents Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] clipping Fingernails
>>
>> I am totally blind and I used to clip my baby's nails. Of course, I
>> needed to be very careful not to hurt her. With my right hand I would
>> hold the clipper and my left hand would guide it on the nail in such a
>> way that I would not clip the skin. I made sure that I did not clip
>> them deep and if there were still rough edges I would file them.
>> Biting her nails never occured to me. I must admit I was somewhat
>> nervous clipping someone else's nails, but my wife who had some vision
>> then delegated that task to me. Thankfully, I no longer have to do
>> that task as my daughter is now eleven and capable of clipping her
>> own.
>> Nevzat Adil
>>
>>> On 9/5/14, Jo Elizabeth Pinto via blparent <blparent at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>> I didn't like biting my daughter's fingernails. When she was a baby, I
>>> used
>>>
>>> to wait till after I gave her a bath and her nails were soft and pliable,
>>> then gently peel them back once they were long enough for me to get my
> own
>>> nail under. It didn't cause her any pain, and the nails came off
> smoothly
>>> all in one piece because they were damp after the bath and easy to work
>>> with. Then I'd just file any rough corners with a fine grit emery board
>>> or
>>>
>>> nail file. She still sometimes lets me do her nails that way, although
>>> she's getting big enough now that it isn't as easy, and they need to be
>>> cut
>>>
>>> with the clippers more often.
>>>
>>> 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: Judy Jones via blparent
>>> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2014 9:42 PM
>>> To: Tara Briggs ; Blind Parents Mailing List
>>> Subject: Re: [blparent] clipping Fingernails
>>>
>>> I had a sighted parent suggest that to me, because she did it with her
>>> babies. We never had to do it very much.
>>>
>>> I guess check the nails and if one seems longer than it should be, try
>>> again.
>>>
>>> Judy
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Tara Briggs via blparent
>>> Sent: Friday, September 5, 2014 9:11 PM
>>> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
>>> Subject: [blparent] clipping Fingernails
>>>
>>> Hi all, does anyone have any advice for how to clip it babies
> fingernails?
>>> My friend who is blind bites her kids fingernails. However, I feel like I
>>> don't get them very short when I do that. Any help would be great!
>>> Thanks
>>> Tara
>>>
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
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