To feel a little sad that my PFB has to wear glasses (OK, OK, I know I am but waaah!)

[madamez]

He's my PFB! And I do foresee lengthy and continuous struggles to get him to keep the things on. ANd I must go and get my varifocals sorted so I stop setting a Bad Example by taking my own specs off every time I get indoors...

ooh tell my sis. she LOVES little children in glasses

I think choc buttons/stickers are a very good idea. also they do have nicer glasses now don't they

My PFB started wearing glasses at 7 or 8 months old , he is now 6. He will be fine

I hated the idea of ds wearing glasses at first. But I got over it. He had some lovely milky bar kid ones, and has now moved onto some Clark Kent ones. He looks so sweet.

i've told DS that sportacus wears specs when he's not on the telly and that's how his eyes are so big and strong was my way of explaining why he had to wear them. seemed to do the trick

I felt a bit the same when dd started having to wear them aged 3. I think it just took some getting used to (for me) as she seemed to look so different!

She's always worn them without complain and loves going to pick new ones. She currently has some Little Miss ones - you can get all sorts like Garfield and Bob The Builder. Specsavers has a great range.

DD1 had to wear glasses when she was 16 months old. She loved them because she could see. She's also longsighted and squints. She hates not wearing now- she describes the world as 'weird and trippy' (thanks to madagascar dvd, not rl experience!) without them.

She keeps hers next to her alarm clock, and won't even open her eyes before she's put them on. We often have to take them off her when we go to bed, as she really doesn't like parting with them!

DD2 also wears glasses, see my profile for pictures of cute bespectacled girls.

DD1 wears glasses and I felt a bit the same way, tbh, but she does look rather nice in them. (Mind you, obviously I'm going to say that.)

my PFB got her glasses last month and i was heartbroken, wasnt really a shock cos me and dp both wear glasses but was sad, she's the only one in her nursery class that failed the eye test, i will have to get ds eyes tested too

My pfb wears hearing aids although he has perfect eye sight. I got my son used to wearing hearing aids by getting him to keep them on for a small period of time. If he managed to keep his hearing aids on ten minutes then he got a star on a star chart. I used a cooker timer to tell him when the time was up. I gradually lengthened the period he had to wear the hearing aids inorder to get a star, until he had to wear them for three hours.

Gradually he began to see the benefit of wearing hearing aids and there was no fight. I am sure it must be similar with glasses.

Be grateful that times have changed so your pfb isn't forced to wear the ugly nhs specs I had to wear from age 7. There are some lovely cute glasses for littlies these days.
Fully expecting my pfb to have to wear glasses as both dh and i are myopic and astigmatic!

All my 3 wear glasses which are continually being broken - I might as well live at the opticians/hospital. One had to wear an eye patch for 4-5 years which improved her 3d vision at least. The youngest needed to wear them from 10 months but she just wouldn't until she was 2. She's 4 now and thankfully alot better. I hated the patching though - even with the funky patches. The glasses are always great thought. My NHS ones were hidious.