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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, clearly, you must have F'd up somewhere, OP.   :roll:

Seriously, do you really not know that you can do everything right and things still not turn out the way you expect?  Did you think you were insulating yourself from developmental challenges because of your superior parenting?  You think it's appropriate to deny your DC corrected vision because you don't like the esthetic?

My DD got her first contact at age 5.  You heard that right.  At age 3, she got her first pair of glasses because vision in one eye was so much weaker than the other.  She wore those glasses for a year and it continued to deteriorate.  At age 4, the opthamalogist gave us the choice of patching her eye or getting a contact. (The concern was that her brain would 'shut off' her weaker eye in favor of the much stronger one.).  You think glasses are bad, try patching for a year.  Patching marginally helped but not as much as a contact would.  So, that's what she got. [/quote]

How do you put a contact lens on 4-year-old!?![/quote]

PP you’re responding to. I had the same reaction you did when the ophthalmologist suggested it. I didn't get contacts until I was 14 - the old, old hard lenses. I'd never used soft lenses because of astigmatism.

The ophthalmologist said kids even younger get them (as a PP noted). The staff taught DD how to put it in and take it out. They were fabulous. I supervised her until she was comfortable and I was sure she'd take care of them correctly. I know not all kids are good candidates but she was and I wish I'd done it sooner rather than patching.[/quote]

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