Share your top tips on getting your child to wear their specs with Specsavers: you could win a £250 voucher NOW CLOSED

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The team at Specsavers know all about fitting specs and getting the correct prescription but would love to know from parents how you go about ensuring your child wears their specs when they need to.

They say "At Specsavers we have great deals on glasses for kids: all in our kids’ £64 and teens’ £85 ranges are free with under-16s’ NHS funding. And now, Specsavers will give you a second pair from the £64 or £85 range, free. Both pairs can come with SuperTough Trivex® single vision lenses with a scratch-resistant treatment. Or you can choose to have tinted prescription lenses and UV filter free in your second pair. We also have a fantastic range of children’s glasses to choose from, with fun designs including Moshi Monsters, Disney Princess, Star Wars, LEGO®, The Simpsons and many more.".

So, whether you have a spec wearing toddler, teen or any age in between please share on this thread your tips to ensure the glasses are on their noses when they should be!

Share your thoughts and everyone who does will be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win a £250 voucher from here

Please note Specsavers may use your comments - anon of course - on their pages on MN, on their social media or possibly elsewhere - please only post if you're happy with this.

Thanks and good luck
MNHQ

tbh my sons pretty good with his. his teacher is aware at school of when he needs to wear them. i think a sticker chart is a good idea for younger children who may forget

My son really needs his glasses, they're the last thing to come off and night and the first thing to go on in the morning. So I'm lucky in that I've never had to force him.

He's worn them since pre school but I really think we're so lucky now that the choice of frames for kids is amazing and there are some cool role models wearing glasses that there's less of a stigma. However, we've not hit the teen years yet and I did overhear someone else, not DS, being called four eyes (which was quickly addressed!) so I'm not fooling myself that it's all "just something that used to happen".

My only top tip is that, knowing that DS would need to wear them all the time, I let him pick the frames. Even from when he was a pre schooler. Luckily there were a few to choose from. And yes he did pick a different colour and style from what I'd have chosen, but I went with his choice.

I let my son choose his glasses and that helped a lot. They weren't the ones I would have picked but he thinks he is as cool as with his bright blue frames and lives ....

My daughter has worn glasses for almost 4 years.
My 3 year old picked hers up yesterday!
So far I have told them they have special eyes and the lovely optician has decided they need glasses to protect them!
This seems to work well also makes them think because they have special eyes they don't have to do chores