Four eyes...
So lately my son has been complaining of eye pain and blinking his eyes alot. So I took him to the eye doctor and found out that he is farsighted and has trouble focusing on things that are close to him. So even though he can see the words in a book now it will be much harder for him to focus in on the words as they get closer together and smaller in the books he reads as he gets older. So the conclusion is that he needs the glasses when he is at school doing his work or if he is on the computer (since he is so close to the screen) So we bought two new pairs of glasses today, and it was cheaper for us to buy two pair than one. Tell me how that is possible, but anyway. (And we are yet to see if his good for nothing dad will pay for his half.)
I was really freaking out about this whole glasses thing. I was being a little superfical and was thinking he was going to look silly in them, and consequently not be as cute anymore :) LOL But the more I look at him in the glasses the more I think that he is really cute in them. Ijust hope that glasses are not a big deal anymore because I really dont want him to get made fun of. I know that I never made fun of anyone with glasses nor did I ever hear anyone make fun of another kid. But, you always hear those stories.
The thing about this is that today I asked the nurse at school if he had passed his vision test. She told me yes, but if his eyes were hurting it was better to be safe than sorry and go the the eye doctor. So finding out that he needed these glasses to read makes me wonder how many other little kids "pass" their vision test and their parents get told that thier eyes are fine and then they go through school for a few year and are not able to focus on what they are reading because they cant see. In turn they fall behind or develop a reading problem. Then they may get placed in special needs classes or something like that. I know that is far fetched, but crazier things have happened. And all of it could have been prevented if the eye test that the nurse did was a little more thorough.
That is all the ranting I have for the day! MMMMWUAH!
I was really freaking out about this whole glasses thing. I was being a little superfical and was thinking he was going to look silly in them, and consequently not be as cute anymore :) LOL But the more I look at him in the glasses the more I think that he is really cute in them. Ijust hope that glasses are not a big deal anymore because I really dont want him to get made fun of. I know that I never made fun of anyone with glasses nor did I ever hear anyone make fun of another kid. But, you always hear those stories.
The thing about this is that today I asked the nurse at school if he had passed his vision test. She told me yes, but if his eyes were hurting it was better to be safe than sorry and go the the eye doctor. So finding out that he needed these glasses to read makes me wonder how many other little kids "pass" their vision test and their parents get told that thier eyes are fine and then they go through school for a few year and are not able to focus on what they are reading because they cant see. In turn they fall behind or develop a reading problem. Then they may get placed in special needs classes or something like that. I know that is far fetched, but crazier things have happened. And all of it could have been prevented if the eye test that the nurse did was a little more thorough.
That is all the ranting I have for the day! MMMMWUAH!
posted by ch-hay duex at 7:05 PM
4 Comments:
Well, that thought that your dad had about him possibly not needing glasses...I would think an optometrist wouldn't do that to a kid, but it could be the case that the test at school was more thorough...probably not though. It could also be the case that his eyes have gotten worse since school started. You have just been really noticing it lately so maybe his eyes weren't that bad at the beginning of school.
Anyway, I think he looks cute in the glasses. I don't think he will get made fun of. Just get him contacts when he gets older if he wants them.
Yeah contacts are definately going to be in his future if I have anything to do with it!! :) But he wont need contacts if he only needs them to read... which is what he needs them for right now. So,lets just hope that is all he ever needs them for.
But if he always needs them to read, that will be a pain. Contacts are so maintenance free nowadays that it would probably be easier if he did have to wear them all the time. Plus the kids I have who are supposed to wear glasses only in class aren't really in the habit of wearing them and therefore don't remember them a lot of times.
yeah thats true, but hopefully he will just get used to it since he is starting off with them so young. we shall see tho!
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