It’s very common to need glasses in 2nd/3rd grade or 6th/7th grade, right around growth spurts. Your eyeballs grow too and sometimes they don’t grow evenly.

DD got glasses at 18 months and neither DH or I had them till our 5Os. No screens at all. Be glad you took him in and can correct the issue. Kids often do not know they are not seeing well.

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Anonymous wrote:Make sure you get cool looking ones so he doesn't become a target.

Kids like glasses these days. My 12 year old pretended he couldn’t see to get them. My 17 year old (different kid) wears glasses with clear lenses. He’s an athlete, too.

That's really strange.

Far-sightedness that appears before age 18 is nearly always hereditary. This will have a prescription that is plus some number, not minus.

Ours needed full-time glasses at 18 months. It was genetic in our case. Often need for eyeglasses are genetic.

There have been studies in Taiwan showing that kids being outdoors in ordinary daylight for about 2 hours a day helps slow (or even prevent) progression of near-sighted vision in kids in most cases. The eyeglass prescription will be minus some number for near sighted vision. Near-sightedness in Taiwan has significantly reduced incidence since elementary/high schools there added more outdoor time.

Two of my grandkids wear glasses. One is in first grade. It’s a genetic thing to need glasses early. Just don’t buy cheap, little kids glasses. Get some kid sized nice glasses. My grandkids look awesome in their glasses and no one ever bats an eyelash. It’s just life.

Take your kid to Lenscrafter and let them pick out frames that they like. This is not a big deal.

Ask your eye doctor about the eye drops/contacts for myopia. They have new technology that can help decrease the extent that the eye lengthens, I am sure I don't have the science 100% correct here, to limit the impact of the myopia. My kid is using the contact lenses. Both his parents have awful eyesight, the hope is that the contacts will help to diminish how bad his gets while he is growing. There are eye drops for people who can't handle contacts, soft lenses for day use, and hard lenses to sleep in that are all shown to reduce the change in the shape of the eye and limit the vision impact.

I had a patch and eyeglasses in first grade back in the 1970's for a lazy eye and myopia. It happened back then, it happens today. Technology is better so treatment is better.

lol, I watched a lot of tv but had no other screens and I needed glasses at age 8 also. They asked me to read the chart and everything was so blurry, I couldn’t find the chart on the wall.

Anonymous wrote:My kid started wearing glasses in second grade. NBD. DH and I both wear glasses.

But is this a troll? Because the whole "should I have pushed screens more/emphasized reading less" thing sounds like a troll question. You can't be serious with that, right?

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I have 4 kids who have all been raised the same way. One needed glasses at 8. Nbd.
Because of the sport my son plays, he actually went straight to contacts at 8 (his choice). The Dr had no issue with it, and my son uses daily disposable lenses. For glasses, we didn’t love the selection locally, but there are a few online places specializing in kids. They send a box of 5 pairs of your choice and you try them in at home.

Researchers haven’t unraveled why this is, but there’s a correlation between having a higher than average IQ and needing glasses earlier in life.

Huh? Normal and generic. Get him glasses and get two in case one breaks. Costco, target, Vision works depending on if you have insurance. Oakley and rayban are the best.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you or your spouse wear contacts or eyeglasses?

This is not a big deal as others have said. Take your son to look at glasses and have him try a bunch of frames.

If you have a brick and mortar Warby Parker, start there.

And take a chill pill OP.

Yes we wear contacts but not as early as 2nd grade. I know I am in need of a chill pill! DCUM is my freak out place so I don't have to do it in real life as much.

If you both wear contacts then it's almost certainly genetic. When the need kicks in can will vary person to person (I needed them in second grade, but my mom needed them much earlier) and how much screening you're doing. I wouldn't worry that you caused this at all.

I needed glasses in 4th grade ( prescreen world).

My child, who watched TV but had no computer/ipad, needed glasses slightly earlier.

A lot is genetic. Does anyone in either family wear glasses? Many young glasses wearers in my family going back to the computer free days!

Looking at screens (backlight) is different from book/paper reading.

Alot of kids have glasses. By middle school so many will have glasses. Don’t sweat this.

Anonymous wrote:We like online Jonas Paul, they send a free try on, and have better size options for kids than an adult store like Warby Parker. My son also started wearing glasses in 2nd grade and the only thing the doctor mentioned is outdoor time - kids are getting myopia younger as they spend more time indoors now.

Warby Parker has a kids line.

Anonymous wrote:We like online Jonas Paul, they send a free try on, and have better size options for kids than an adult store like Warby Parker. My son also started wearing glasses in 2nd grade and the only thing the doctor mentioned is outdoor time - kids are getting myopia younger as they spend more time indoors now.

Thanks I havent heard of Jonas Paul. We just had him try on a few frames at the eye doctor and they didnt seem to have many in his size. All of them were too big.