Caring for Children's Eyeglasses

Video Transcript

"Okay now we're going to talk about how to get your child to kind of take care of their glasses. Rule of thumb, and I have a lot of parents tell me this, they tell their kids, obviously these are younger kids, but if the glasses aren't on your face they go in the case. And here at this office with every job sold we actually give them a case for their glasses. The case can be demonstrated right here. You want it to be a hard shell case. There's no use in giving a child a soft case to put their glasses in. They're going to throw that in their backpack and it's going to get trampled on when they're not using it. So you want to have a hard shell case. This is an example of a hard shell case. Has a velvety interior so that the glasses wont get scratched up. This particular brand actually includes a cloth in the case. You want to tell, again it depends on the maturity of the child, how old, you might have to be the one to do this, but this is a microfiber cleaning cloth. And this is what you should be using to clean the glasses off with. You don't use shirt tails, you definitely don't use paper products. You're going to wind up scratching those lenses with the paper products. So tell your kids that. And I try to, when that child comes in, and I dispense glasses to them I tell them this is their case, this is where they put their glasses when they're not using them. This is your cleaning cloth. This is what you use to clean the glasses off with. If they don't come with the cleaning cloth then we always try to give them a care kit. This has the solution and the cloth in there. So again, showing the child that you spray this on their glasses and you use this to wipe them clean. And if it's not the child then it's going to be the parent. And the parent has to know how to take care of the glasses as well. We also, again, give them a warranty card, to the parent so that the parent knows the glasses are taken care of if something should happen to them. So those are the three things that we, when we dispense a set of glasses to a child, that's what we tell them and that's what we give them. A case, a cleaning cloth, some solution to clean the glasses off with and a warranty card expressing to the parent if something happens to these glasses we're going to take care of them for you. And that's what you should be looking for when you go into your optician's office. Do my glasses come with this stuff so that we can take care of the glasses? I think it's important because it kind of tells the child that this is something serious that I need to take care of."