My 4yo dd needs glasses - anyone think of any idea to make it seem more exciting?????

skylight

littlemissmoney wrote: »

If she wants to be a pilot doesn't telling her that have the opposite to the desired effect!?

No - she only needs them for corrective sight for about a year (hopefully) the more she wears them, the sooner her eyesight will be fixed, and the sooner she can chuck the glasses.

If her eyes do not correct, she runs the risk of having to wear glasses everyday all her life (like me, cos my Mum wouldn't take me to get my eyes sorted until I could barely see!)

So to be a pilot her eyes need to be fixed. Mind you, she will probably change her mind about careers!

amandada

My dd has been wearing glasses since she just turned 5, and had no problems accepting the need to wear them.
I'd recommend Specsavers too, as they have the widest range of children's frames I've seen, last time I was in they had quite a few Mr Men/Little Miss/Barbie/Garfield, as well as a lot really funky ones without characters.
My dd (she's now 10) needs to wear her glasses all the time now, and he one thing we've done is allowed her to have the final say in which frame she chooses-as she's the one who has to wear them all the time.

You could also tell her that a lot of people now buy glasses with blank lenses because glasses are so trendy and they're desperate to wear them, even though they don't need them

Madmel

Amandada, I completely agree with you.

DD1 has had to wear glasses since the age of 2.5 - she is now 8. At first it was difficult and I bribed her. Now it has got to the point that DD2, the only non-glasses wearer in the family is so desperate to wear them that she has lied during eye tests :eek: .

Specsavers have always been great with us, and as other posters have said, I always let DD1 have the final say in the frames. She looks lovely in them, and her eyesight has improved massively, although I don't know if or when she'll do without them as she is long-sighted and had a squint (like me).

We met the Red Arrows yesterday and they do have a female flight engineer. The pilots are so nice and all signed the DDs brochures - one advantage of DH being a member of the local flying club!

prestonlass

just asked my little boy for you. He's been wearing glasses since he was 2 (now5) and there is only him and another little girl in his class who do.
Asked him what's the best thing about wearing glasses his reply - cos they make your eyes work better so that you can see well. to be honest with him it's that simple, they soon cotton onto the fact that life's a whole lot easier when you can see what's going on properly. He loves the attention he gets. Another trick is to find a really good optician - forget your in n out shops like specsavers, no problem with them for adults but we have a local one who recognise that this is a customer who will be around for a long time and gets at least one pair per year. They look after him, make him feels special and he loves going - hope everything gets itself sorted and you look back in a months time and wonder why you were worrying.

Not meaning you of course, I get quite cross with other mother's who moan about having to 'patch' their kids, we've been at it for almost 2 years now and just don't make an issue out of it, it's just something that needs to be done. I am just thankful that I'm not having to put a caliper on my child or watch him suffer through a real disability.

Your little girl's glasses will just become a part of her and when she's older think how happy she will be that she's got them early enough so that she won't fall behind because of poor eyesight.:)

kit

Can I just hyjack this a minute.... a few of you have mentioned children aged 2 with glasses.... can they be tested that young?
My OH has really bad eyes so I wanted to get my 2 year old DD's tested early to see if she is ok but they says she doesnt need a test yet as she is too young???

Mics_chick

kit wrote: »

Can I just hyjack this a minute.... a few of you have mentioned children aged 2 with glasses.... can they be tested that young?
My OH has really bad eyes so I wanted to get my 2 year old DD's tested early to see if she is ok but they says she doesnt need a test yet as she is too young???

Maybe if there isn't an obvious problem then they don't worry about it ???
Was your OH eyesight bad at such a young age?

I've seen babies (about 9mo) wearing glasses before so the doctors must know that their eyesight is bad because it's part of a condition they've been diagnosed with, I guess.

Is your dd only just turned 2 coz another child can be tested and wearing glasses at 2 but they're nearly 3 - language improves alot between 2 & 3 and that might possibly be the difference...

SPANIEL36

my 5 year old wears glasses, she thought it was fantastic going to specsavers, choosing her own and being the only one in her class who wore them although she kept copying the teacher and putting them on her head so i had to ahve a word with the teacher about that!!


just a word of thought though. if DD has been refered to opticians via school optometrist? make sure that you take the prescription to soewher like specsavers. this is because the opticians i was sent to via the person who refered my daughter from school they charged extra for branded kiddies frames like barbie etc. also specsavers are great with kids and if the kids break, bend or even lose the specs, they replace free of charge. hope she gets on ok with them

prestonlass

if you just explain to your health visitor that there is a possibility your child may have poor eyesight eg. other family members, they should refer you to your local clinic for an appointment with an orthoptic. My experience of them is brilliant, my sons eyes were checked every 3 months from about 6 mnths old. Obviously it is extremely difficult for them to be specific but they can monitor development & improvement or lack of it. Dropes can be put into the eyes for the Optometrist to prescribe if necessary and my son had his first glasses just before his 2nd birthday. As he has regular checks every couple of months they are also keeping an eye on my baby, now 8 months. When I mentioned my concerns about the baby to my GP she told me I would have to wait for an appointment and we should wait until she was at least 1. The Orthoptics don't see any point on making a formal appointment for one so young as obviously they can only do brief checks but their advice is most definately, the earlier the better, they can really assist with any possible deteriation. My advice, contact your health visitor and ask her to sort it. good luck.

stefejb

My dd has been wearing glasses for about a year - she is 10 and she will need them forever. She was adamant that she wasn't going to wear them but I did het her to promise to wear them home at least. Well she amused us by reading out signs and bus numbers that she wouldn't have been able to see before and has kept them on since - she just can't cope without them. She has talked about contacts or surgery when she's older but is happy with her specs at the moment. A very sparkly glasses case has helped.

My eldest dd (now 22) had corrective glasses at about 6 and really struggled with them until her "boyfriend" told her that she had looked nice before but now looked beautiful - what a sweetie

good luck

stef

kit

Thanks guys. For info dd is 2 years 5 months.
I wear glasses part time, some of my family wear glasses (younger brother had a patch for years), OH and his family also wear glasses so I think I will ring the health visitor just to check. DD rubs her eyes a lot so best to be safe than sorry I think.
Thanks again.