Tara from Happy Soul Project kindly sent in this post reflecting on a year since her little girl had eye surgery. She describes the fears and uncertainty that we all felt when we first learned our child or children had vision issues. This was originally posted on her blog, Happy Soul Project, and is repostedContinue reading “Your stories: Her First and Won’t be Her Last”
Category Archives: babies with glasses
Frequently Asked Questions: how do eye doctors determine the prescription when a child can’t talk or read an eye chart
One of the questions that you run in to a lot when you have a very little one in glasses is how an eye doctor can determine the prescription of kids who can’t read letters yet — and in many cases, aren’t verbal yet. It was one of the things I wondered about when weContinue reading “Frequently Asked Questions: how do eye doctors determine the prescription when a child can’t talk or read an eye chart”
Round up of some good links (picture tutorial, giveaways, and special offers)
I’ve come across some links recently that I wanted to make sure to share: How to take photos of kids in glasses – Jessica from Eye Power Kids’ Wear has a great post with advice on getting great pictures of your kids in glasses. Take a look! Speaking of Eye Power Kids’ Wear, they areContinue reading “Round up of some good links (picture tutorial, giveaways, and special offers)”
Book reviews: Three new books written by authors who have been through it! My Bright Blue Glasses, and Jack Wears Glasses and Jack Wears Contact Lenses and Glasses …Just Like You!
I’m excited to be reviewing three new books by Juliette Vignola, and Cynthia Davis and Baby Sue Acree. The authors of these books have all been through glasses either as a parent of a young child in glasses, or as a child who wore glasses themselves. I am giving away the copies of the booksContinue reading “Book reviews: Three new books written by authors who have been through it! My Bright Blue Glasses, and Jack Wears Glasses and Jack Wears Contact Lenses and Glasses …Just Like You!”
Frequently asked question: how will I ever get my child to wear glasses?
The Little Four Eyes facebook group gets quite a few parents who have just learned that their child will need glasses. Many come to the group with the same question: “How on earth am I ever going to convince my wonderful, but strong-willed child to keep glasses on her face?” For many of us, theContinue reading “Frequently asked question: how will I ever get my child to wear glasses?”
Contests, giveaways, and surveys, oh my!
First, a quick note to say that I have updated the photo galleries with some wonderful new photos of kiddos in glasses and in patches. Thank you to everyone who has shared their photos! They really go a long way to helping other families and young kids in glasses and patches to feel less alone.Continue reading “Contests, giveaways, and surveys, oh my!”
Glasses! a board book – update
The Kickstarter for the Glasses! board book is still running. There are only 9 days left, and we’re almost two-thirds of the way there! I have heard so often from so many of you that seeing pictures of other children in glasses has helped so much. For kids, seeing other kids in glasses helps them feel lessContinue reading “Glasses! a board book – update”
Updates! Great Glasses Play Day, the Glasses book, and a huge giveaway
There’s a lot of recent updates that I haven’t done a good job of keeping up with, so here goes: The 2014 date for the Great Glasses Play Day has been announced. We had a lot of requests to move away from the August date due to weather issues in a lot of locations. AfterContinue reading “Updates! Great Glasses Play Day, the Glasses book, and a huge giveaway”
Glasses: a board book for young ones in glasses
In an earlier post, I mentioned that I had a book that I was working on a board book and would be launching a Kickstarter soon. Well the Kickstarter has launched! And I’d love your support. Glasses: a board book The book is titled Glasses. It will be a board book that features photos ofContinue reading “Glasses: a board book for young ones in glasses”
Frequently asked questions: My child’s eyes cross without their glasses, are the glasses making their eyes worse?
This is one of the questions that comes up very often in the Little Four Eyes facebook group. The question usually reads something like this: My child just started wearing glasses a few weeks ago for farsightedness. Before getting glasses, we noticed that her eyes would cross, but only occasionally. When her glasses are on,Continue reading “Frequently asked questions: My child’s eyes cross without their glasses, are the glasses making their eyes worse?”
Books about glasses, contacts, and patches — written from experience
It should come as no surprise that I love books and turn to books especially when it comes to children’s books. I’m a librarian, after all. When Zoe first got glasses, I set out to find some good books for a young toddler in glasses. And I came up pretty short. There are certainly booksContinue reading “Books about glasses, contacts, and patches — written from experience”
Some of the (other) great benefits of having a young kid in glasses
A long time ago (well, long time in Internet land), I wrote a post about the good side of having a kid in glasses. My favorite was that everyone seemed to notice Zoe’s glasses, so they probably didn’t notice the stains on her shirt. I’d been thinking about that post again as I’ve recentlyContinue reading “Some of the (other) great benefits of having a young kid in glasses”
Pie chart responses to questions about kids in glasses and eye patches
Yesterday in our facebook group (if you’re not a member, you should be!), Jessica shared an upsetting story which she gave permission to share here. She was with her son in the waiting room of their eye doctor. Another woman was there with a young boy, and the woman told the boy that if he didn’tContinue reading “Pie chart responses to questions about kids in glasses and eye patches”
Call for photos for a calendar
Jessica D is putting together a calendar with pictures of kids with glasses, eye patches, or other vision issues, and little blurbs of why your little one wears glasses or what vision impairment they may have. All proceeds from the sale of the calendar will go 50/50 to help with next years Great Glasses Play DayContinue reading “Call for photos for a calendar”
Great Glasses Play Day 2013 is almost here!!
Festivities for the Great Glasses Play Day kick off in just a few hours. I can’t wait to hear how all the celebrations go, and I’m looking forward to making some new friends at our event in St. Paul. Even if you’re not able to make one of the meet-ups, make sure you take aContinue reading “Great Glasses Play Day 2013 is almost here!!”
For Little Eyes 