1. Find your fingernail clippers, sit down and make yourself comfortable.
2. Start trimming the fingernails on one hand.
3. When your toddler comes in and says “hand” and starts begging you to trim her fingernails, let her onto your lap and trim a few of her fingernails. You may need to take turns cutting her fingernails and your fingernails so that she remains excited about it.
4. If your toddler wants to leave your lap before you are finished cutting her fingernails, just be sure to not leave any sharp edges before you let her go. I trim on one side of the fingernail, then on the other, and round it out in the middle.
5. Finish trimming your own fingernails. You’ll get her last two fingernails later – it could be the last victory before she finally starts her nap.