How to Get Your Child to Wear Glasses
Sometimes it's difficult for children to understand why they have to wear glasses when most of their friends don't. Here's how to help keep those glasses where they belong ' on your child's face!
Other People Are Reading
Instructions
-
-
1
Do your best to help your child understand why she needs to wear glasses; even some toddlers can understand when you explain that the glasses will help them see better.
-
2
Let your child help to choose her own frames by offering a selection of frames within your price range. Children won't wear glasses they hate.
-
-
3
Avoid buying glasses for your child to grow into ' these will be uncomfortable, as well as less effective than glasses that fit properly.
-
4
Resort to bribery if necessary. Offer pretty stickers as an incentive to wear glasses, or as a reward for keeping them on for a certain amount of time.
-
5
Make it clear to your child that certain activities require glasses: If your toddler or preschooler brings you a book, insist that she put her glasses on before you read it.
-
6
Find some stories or picture books that show children wearing glasses or that deal with the issue of getting glasses.
-
7
Try to avoid conflicts and battles of will; if your toddler takes her glasses off after half an hour, wait for a while before putting them back on her.
-
8
Clean the lenses regularly ' your child is more likely to keep them on if she can actually see through them. Show her how to clean them herself if she's old enough.
-
1
Tips & Warnings
If possible, get polycarbonate lenses ' they are scratch-resistant and durable.
If you don't wear glasses regularly, consider getting some empty frames to wear around your child, just to show that you will willingly wear glasses too.
If redness or sore patches appear on your child's nose or temples, take the glasses in for readjustment.
If you need to bribe your child to keep her glasses on, don't use food. This could lead to food-related emotional issues later in life.
Don't forget to check screws and other fittings regularly to make sure the glasses don't fall apart.
Resources
More Like This
Comments
View all 11 Comments-
meganinge
Jun 04, 2008
Hi, In the past couple of months I have been through the process of getting prescription glasses for my daughter 2 year old daughter. The biggest issue my daughter and I have faced through this tough time has been keeping the glasses on, and in the correct position on her little head. I have visited several optometrist and sunglass shops, wasted money on rubbers and ugly straps that didnt work, and scoured the internet for a solution. I have been unable to find a product to satisfy my daughters need. They say necessity is the mother of all invention and in my situation this has certainly proved true. I have developed a new product called the InconSPECuous eyeglass retainer. The product is designed for children. It is inconspicuous. It is easy to secure and detach. It is strong, and it is safe. These claims I know to be true and I whole heartedly believe in them, bec -
meganinge
Jun 04, 2008
Hi, In the past couple of months I have been through the process of getting prescription glasses for my daughter 2 year old daughter. The biggest issue my daughter and I have faced through this tough time has been keeping the glasses on, and in the correct position on her little head. I have visited several optometrist and sunglass shops, wasted money on rubbers and ugly straps that didnt work, and scoured the internet for a solution. I have been unable to find a product to satisfy my daughters need. They say necessity is the mother of all invention and in my situation this has certainly proved true. I have developed a new product called the InconSPECuous eyeglass retainer. The product is designed for children. It is inconspicuous. It is easy to secure and detach. It is strong, and it is safe. These claims I know to be true and I whole heartedly believe in them, bec
-
meganinge
Jun 04, 2008
Hi, In the past couple of months I have been through the process of getting prescription glasses for my daughter 2 year old daughter. The biggest issue my daughter and I have faced through this tough time has been keeping the glasses on, and in the correct position on her little head. I have visited several optometrist and sunglass shops, wasted money on rubbers and ugly straps that didnt work, and scoured the internet for a solution. I have been unable to find a product to satisfy my daughters need. They say necessity is the mother of all invention and in my situation this has certainly proved true. I have developed a new product called the InconSPECuous eyeglass retainer. The product is designed for children. It is inconspicuous. It is easy to secure and detach. It is strong, and it is safe. These claims I know to be true and I whole heartedly believe in them, bec
-
meganinge
Jun 04, 2008
Hi, In the past couple of months I have been through the process of getting prescription glasses for my daughter 2 year old daughter. The biggest issue my daughter and I have faced through this tough time has been keeping the glasses on, and in the correct position on her little head. I have visited several optometrist and sunglass shops, wasted money on rubbers and ugly straps that didnt work, and scoured the internet for a solution. I have been unable to find a product to satisfy my daughters need. They say necessity is the mother of all invention and in my situation this has certainly proved true. I have developed a new product called the InconSPECuous eyeglass retainer. The product is designed for children. It is inconspicuous. It is easy to secure and detach. It is strong, and it is safe. These claims I know to be true and I whole heartedly believe in them, bec
-
Aug 08, 2006
To increase a behavior, provide reinforcement immediately after its occurrence. When your child approaches their glasses, provide a reinforcer, such as an M&M. When they are wearing them, give an M&M and lots of verbal praise. Fade out the use of M&M's or other reinforcement gradually, and then keep it intermittent over time, with just the verbal praise. Let your child hear you over the phone tell Grandma how proud you are of them for wearing their glasses, don't make it a power struggle. Any time you observe appropriate glasses wearing behavior, use reinforcement. The child will understand the reinforcement is contingent on the target behavior. This behavior strategy is very brief, and not mean to be clinical advice. There are lots of case studies available on children and glasses wearing, using behavioral analysis. It works! If done well, your child won't even know you're doing it. And they end up wearing their glasses which is good for them.
