How to Get Your Child to Wear Glasses

Video Transcript

"Hello. Are you struggling with trying to get your child to wear eyeglasses, and there's a new phase for them to be into? Well, I'm Dr. Felicia, and I'd like to share a few tips with you on how to get your child to wear eyeglasses. One of the first thing you want to do is, make sure the child is part of that decision making on which glasses they're going to wear. Depending on how old they are of course, you want the child to help straighten out, let you know if they fit properly. Very often on a small child they slide down their nose, and so you want to get the frame that doesn't slide down their nose, if they're very tiny. But you also want to make sure you take into consideration the child's concerns. Like for instance, most children will pout, they'll just say, give those glasses and throw them off, and they'll just fling them, because they want nothing to do with them. And mostly it happens if another child makes fun of them or makes a comment. So what you want to do is, give your child the right ammunition as far as eyeglasses, in terms of fit, frame, and also flexibility, so that they don't break so easily. But you really want to make sure that, that child is part of the selection process, because that's important. If they're not, they're just not going to bother, they're not going to like wearing them. And no matter what you say, it's not going to overcome what the other children say. So you might want to give your child some ammunition into how to handle other children's comments, and that includes just saying, that's okay, I can ignore that, because you know they look good, or because somebody else said they look good. So you want to help your child reinforce how they're going to react with that in their little environment, whatever that is, whether it's preschool, early school, or middle school; very devastating in middle school of course, they're very self conscious. So depending on what age your child is, as I said, make them part of the decision making process. Make sure that the selection is something they really go for, and that way you can help reinforce to keep them on. It's very important obviously for their eye ware. I do wish you luck with that selection, and I do hope that your child goes along with you, and helps you in part of the decision making process on how to wear glasses. Good luck. This is Dr. Felicia saying good bye for now. Thank you."