toddlers wearing glasses...
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Topic: toddlers wearing glasses...
Posted By: BaAsKa
Subject: toddlers wearing glasses...
Date Posted: 21 November 2009 at 11:42am
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Does anyone have a toddler who wears glasses (permanent not just reading)??
How did they adjust to it?? Astin has just got glasses and although he will wear them all the time and will refuse to take them off.....he tends to tilt his head forward or back so he can look over top or underneath them rather than look through them!!  we have to keep reminding him to looking through his glasses!!
excuse the cheeky rabbit teeth! 
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Posted By: KazS
Date Posted: 21 November 2009 at 12:49pm
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oh my look how cute he looks with his glasses!
Sorry cant help though |
Posted By: KiwiL
Date Posted: 21 November 2009 at 1:05pm
| Can't help either, but man does he look cute (and cheeky!). I am sure he'll get used to them. |
Posted By: Mama2two
Date Posted: 21 November 2009 at 2:10pm
OMG Amber, he is such a cutey
Sorry no advice on how to get him to look through them more, but just had to oooh & aaah over your sweet man  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: BaAsKa
Date Posted: 21 November 2009 at 5:55pm
hehe thanks ladies hes my little dennis the mennis!!
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Posted By: BaAsKa
Date Posted: 21 November 2009 at 5:59pm
oh wow! Sterryn i just noticed you have had your wee man!!!! *crawls out from under rock* CONGRATS!! im off to hunt photos
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Posted By: MrsH
Date Posted: 21 November 2009 at 8:04pm
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So cute.
Could it be that the rim is in his eyeline? ie. he's looking over or under the rim? It might be a case of them sitting a bit low on the bridge of his nose and they need to be pushed up a bit (and the nose things tightened). HTH. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: fallen
Date Posted: 21 November 2009 at 9:11pm
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Aww hes a cutie!
From the photo I'd agree that the glasses are riding too low on his face. Generally speaking the pupil of the eye should sit in the middle of the lens of the glasses. From experience I find it does take a few days for my eyes to adjust to new glasses, so that may be part of why hes avoiding looking though them too? My DD wears glasses and has done so since she was about 6. She adjusted fairly quickly. She got a new pair a month or so ago. We've had to get them adjusted a couple of times to get them comfortable on her face. ------------- |
Posted By: RinTinTin
Date Posted: 22 November 2009 at 12:25pm
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Oh he's so cute! I agree they look like they might be sitting slightly low. He will adjust to them over time. Even I looked under or over my glasses when I first got them and I was 18 at the time. It's usually cause the eye is automatically attracted to the frame. Can be a hard concept for a child to grasp, the idea of looking BEYOND what is right in front of their face. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: BaAsKa
Date Posted: 22 November 2009 at 10:19pm
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we had them adjusted twice at visique its hard to make them sit right bcos he broke his nose a few months back so the bridge is a bit out of wack
I wanted the frameless glasses but they said that what i got was the closest i will get to frameless for a child so young 
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Posted By: MrsH
Date Posted: 23 November 2009 at 1:14pm
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What about an elastic band thing that will hold them on (like baby sunglasses have)? That is, if that's the problem (rim in eyeline). ------------- http://lilypie.com"> http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: bext1
Date Posted: 23 November 2009 at 1:31pm
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DS1 is just turned six but glasses earlier this year.
They are a pain for their age, as they have no bridge on their noses yet to hold up the glasses!! He's on his third pair already as broke one pair and just lost the new pair!! What a worry! Took him a while to get used to them too, cause I noticed them always slipping down, but I think slowly they adjust ------------- 
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 23 November 2009 at 7:54pm
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Gosh, I can't even remember how I got used to wearing glasses, and I was an adult lol - it was a long time ago!
Maya's BFF has worn glasses since she was about 18 months-2ish, and I know her mum has had a mission trying to get her to keep them on over the years, altho as she's gotten older and realised that she can see better with them on, she's more compliant. She did have a stretchy rubber band thingie on them to hold them on when she first got them. I agree with the others too - they really suit him. Cheeky! -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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