As an adult you may have been wearing eyeglasses for a number of years and have come to understand what styles and brands suit you best. For a child, they will have their own views on the subject, but your experience will help guide them towards the correct choices, even more so if they are choosing their first pair. Here are six tips to assist the selection process.
1 Practical beats cute
Although you may have selected their bedroom design based upon a Disney character, eyeglasses for children must first be practical and suitable for the task. Being cute, trendy or stylish are secondary attractions, but may be first choice for your child.
Careful explanation to your child will reveal the reasons for your choices. By explaining the difficulties of choosing inappropriate eyeglasses, you will help your children understand why certain models are being suggested. Even the youngest of children will understand common sense rules and know that you are not turning down the Barbie specials purely because your bedroom is Barbie everything.
Unbreakable frames will top everyone’s list for kids.
2 Discuss everyday routines
Just as you eat breakfast, lunch and dinner and wear specific clothes for school and more glamorous choices for birthday parties, children have to understand that wearing glasses will become a major part of their everyday routine.
Together, the children and the parents can practice cleaning the frames and the lenses as well as learning the best way to put glasses on and take them off. Understanding how glasses must be kept safe in case when they are not wearing them is more important than the color of the frames.
3 The fit is important
For a child to virtually forget that they are wearing eyeglasses the best fit is extremely important and for this you will also be guided by the eyeglass fitting specialists. The frames will sit lower than a child’s eyebrow line, while the lowest edge of the frame will not be seen below your child’s cheeks.
Narrow frames make your children’s eyes look too close together, but wide frames should not exceed the distance of your child’s face at the temples.
4 Color match helps
Your eyeglass professional will understand the correlation between eye color and frame color as some match perfectly and others never will.
5 Where are your eyes?
To prevent bullying, children with close set eyes will probably choose a thin or clear bridge, whereas highly colored bridges make wide set eyes appear much closer together.
6 Activity considerations
Generally, children are far more active than adults and will require frames that are less likely to break easily. Depending upon the child’s favorite sports, they may need to wear the eyeglasses while performing those sports, where it is safe to perform the activity wearing eyeglasses.
By combining all of these six simple tips, a match between the adult and the child’s point of view will help select effective eyeglasses. Their input is important at all ages to extend their co-operation with wearing the eyeglasses consistently. You must remember that prescriptions for your child’s eyes must be regularly updated and this may incur a change of frames and a review of.
