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Determining If Your Child Needs Glasses

January 17, 2020 by Nerdy Dad RP 11 Comments

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Determining If Your Child Needs Glasses

Do you suspect your child needs glasses? When children are going through vital developmental in their early childhood, they get about 80% of their learning through visual stimuli. Therefore assessing and testing their eyes during these early years is vital to ensure that they reach social and intellectual milestones.

Plus, it gives them the self-confidence to go out into the yard or playground and explore.

As parents, there are tell-tale signs that can be picked up during infancy and early childhood that point towards vision problems. Generally, the more serious the problem, the earlier it’s picked up.

During the first few months, a baby has very poor vision, with little visual acuity and seeing mostly in black and white. After six months, their sight should naturally sharpen, and they should have better hand-eye coordination.

At this point, you should take your child for their first eye exam. After this, an eye exam should happen from the age of three onwards every year.

A simple, well-proven surgery can restore sight to millions, and something even simpler, a pair of glasses, can make millions more see.

Thulasiraj Ravilla

Signs of Poor EyeSight

  • Constantly sitting too close to the television or holding a book close to their face
  • Squinting to see clearly
  • High sensitivity to light and shielding the eyes
  • Avoiding certain things like close activities (reading, coloring), or distant activities (playing with a ball or tag).
  • Frequent rubbing the eyes
  • Complaining of a headache or tiredness in the eyes
  • Watery eyes

It never gets old watching someone receive their first pair of glasses and regain their vision and their life.

Neil Blumenthal

What’s Wrong?

The typical problems that young children experience are:

Farsightedness

Common with kids and can lead to crossed eyes. This can easily be corrected in the early years by wearing glasses or contact lenses.

In very rare cases, surgery is needed. However, left untreated, crossed-eyedness or strabismus can lead to permanent and irreversible vision loss.

Nearsightedness

It is also called myopia and means that children can’t see the blackboard and other faraway objects.

Astigmatism

This is when your child has blurred or distorted vision at all distances. In most cases, these common conditions can be treated with correctly prescribed glasses or contact lenses.

The Immovable Mountain


Your child may be as stubborn as a mule and refuse to wear glasses (let alone contact lenses). If you run into opposition, try some of these methods:

  • Let them select their own glasses.
  • Explain the advantages of wearing glasses. Like you will be able to play sports now, or you will be able to see the computer better to play video games.
  • Some children are worried they will be teased or feel different with glasses. Calm their worries by giving them an example of a superhero, cartoon character, or famous person with glasses who they can look up to.
  • Don’t visit the optometrist to select glasses when they are grumpy, sick, or hungry.
  • Make sure that the glasses fit correctly and are comfortable for them.

12% of people with glasses wear them as an attempt to see better. 88% of people with glasses wear them as an attempt to appear smarter.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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  1. Suzanne Greene says

    July 10, 2020 at 6:51 pm

    Wow, this is great information. Both of my grandchildren needed glasses as children. We were lucky and didn’t have any problems getting them to wear them.

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    • Nerdy Dad RP says

      August 3, 2020 at 12:24 pm

      That’s great! Getting glasses as a child can be hard for some kids self-esteem. I know my wife didn’t enjoy it.

      Reply
  2. TINA ALEXANDER says

    November 6, 2020 at 12:56 am

    Both my kids were prescribed glasses for to improve their vision.My son wear his every day, but my daughter rarely wear hers.My son love how he look in his glasses and my daughter chose the pair she wanted.Yet she rarely put them on. I try to persuade her to put them on when reading/doing work.

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    • Nerdy Dad RP says

      November 17, 2020 at 1:51 pm

      Your daughter sounds like how I was with glasses and my son sounds like yours. He likes his glasses and doesn’t mind wearing them at all.

      Reply
  3. cindy legg says

    November 9, 2020 at 4:44 am

    its important to care for childrens vision because 80% of our learning is done with our eyes or vision. nearsightedness is a major cause of childrens learning problems because it makes them not be able to see the blackboard

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    • Nerdy Dad RP says

      November 17, 2020 at 1:45 pm

      Totally agree – vision is so important! I remember not being able to see the board in elementary school but I didn’t want to get glasses.

      Reply
  4. megan allen says

    November 10, 2020 at 3:04 am

    My daughter has been doing a lot of these things. My son already has glasses. Thank you for these tips!

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    • Nerdy Dad RP says

      November 17, 2020 at 1:41 pm

      I am guessing she is younger than your son. Our older son has glasses too but our younger one not as of yet.

      Reply
  5. Lauryn R says

    December 29, 2020 at 11:50 pm

    These are great things to look for to determine if your child needs glasses, thanks for sharing! My oldest daughter had all of these problems and ended up having terrible vision (can’t see far away) and needed thick glasses. She even has special prism lenses in hers.

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    • Nerdy Dad RP says

      December 30, 2020 at 2:57 pm

      Awe, we feel for her! My wife has similar vision.

      Reply

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