Hi there,
Last week I took my 5 year old daughter to the opticians for the first time - it was just a routine check-up and neither my husband or I, or her teacher, have noticed any issues with her vision.
The optician said she was long-sighted and that she was to come back to be re-tested and have some eye-drops put in before so they could accurately determine her level of long-sightedness. We saw a different optician the next day who re-tested her with the eye-drops and gave her a prescription of +1.75 in both eyes. He recommended that she wears glasses for when she is focusing (ie reading, writing etc) to help her eyes develop and said hopefully she would grow out of it as she grows. We didn't chose any frames that day as it was quite stressful for her so I said we would go back another time.
When we got home and told my husband he said that he wanted to get a second opinion as the prescription doesn't sound severe enough to warrant glasses and he doesn't want to make her unnecessarily wear glasses at such a young age. I really don't want to take her to another opticians and put her through another test as she found it quite stressful and draining. I did a bit of a search online and it does seem that it's quite a low prescription but on the other hand I don't want to impede development of her vision by not getting her glasses.
Are there any opticians/optometrists on here that can give any advice or has anyone else been through the same thing with their little one?