DD1 has been wearing glasses for nearly a year now - she is about to turn 3. She is very long sighted with a lazy eye and a squint!
She has to wear her glasses all the time (is currently asleep on the sofa and was still wearing them when she dozed off!) and has to wear a patch for 3 hour a day too.
The brain haemorrhage (sp?) she had when she was born was predicted to lead to all sorts of things - and the only one that materialised is the non-development of her eyes. I actually see her glasses as a sign of how lucky we are compared to what we were told to expect.
She has always been good at wearing her glasses - one pair is pink and the other is purple. The NHS patch was not much good so I got framehuggers from the USA and they have been fabulous. She has 4 and chooses one each day to match her outfit. (And her left, lazy, squinty eye is already catching up with the right one much to the amazement of the ophthalmologist at the hospital).
She goes to playgroups and pre-school and to the childminder. She has never had anything other than positive comments regarding either her glasses or her patches.
In the future they plan to operate to tighten the muscle to correct the squint but I hope to put that off until she is older as then it is more likely to be successful.
Wearing glasses is not usually something children tease each other about these days - I speak as a primary school teacher - but wearing glasses can make such a diffeence to a child. I am always surprised by the number of parents who wither a) worry about negative impact of wearing glasses or b) haven't had their child's eyes tested until I mention that their child is aparently struggling to see things in the classroom.