If your infant has been diagnosed with visual problems there is no need to panic. Most parents dread the idea of their children wearing glasses at such a young age, fearing that they won’t get used to them or that they might be bullied at school later on. Most parents declare: “He only wears them for five seconds then takes them off” or “He doesn’t even want to take them out of the case” or “As soon as he sees them he throws them away.
Getting infants acquainted with vision glasses is not an easy task; it requires a lot of patience to convince those little ones to wear these ‘foreign objects”. Nevertheless, though at this age it is not easy for them to learn, for infants wearing vision glasses, it should be treated in the same manner as using a toothbrush or learning table manners. Infants learn through playing and mainly mimicking their parents. They may not understand why they can’t eat while running around or indeed why they should wear glasses but they will in the end if they see their parents doing so. The sooner the procedure starts, the sooner they will learn.
A good method to employ is to introduce them gradually by beginning with sunglasses, and in any case, protecting our eyes from the Sun is crucial. Later on we can encourage children to wear vision glasses by saying that they are like Mummy or Daddy, socializing with friends whose children wear glasses, buying products with heroes who wear glasses or choosing a vision frame which will draw positive attention or other small ‘tricks’ that will lure or convince our little’ bespeckled’ ones to wear their glasses .
They will gradually realize that their vision is ‘damaged’ without their glasses and they will seek them out themselves. Naturally, along with learning to wear eyeglasses, we must teach them to look after them properly with the correct cleaning products and keep them in their protective case. These will become the rules that children will maintain throughout adulthood ensuring visual quality and in turn increasing the lifespan of their spectacles.