World Sight Day 2014: No More Avoidable Blindness
Today is World Sight Day 2014. World Sight Day is a day of global awareness of vision issues, the call to action for this year is one that’s near to […]
Category Archives: in the news
Great article in The Wall Street Journal on toddlers in glasses
Last week, The Wall Street Journal ran a fantastic article about having a toddler or baby in glasses. Head on over there and read it if you haven’t already done […]
Is it a good thing for glasses to be associated with geeks and nerds?
Recently, UK retailer Tesco had some children’s shirts for sale that had a picture of an animal wearing glasses and the word “geek” or “nerd.” Quite a few parents wrote […]
What keeps me up at night: uncorrected refractive errors in children
Do you know what keeps me up at night? It’s the fact that there’s a really high percentage of kids out there who need glasses to see well, and they […]
Speaking of amblyopia…
A couple things turned up today that I wanted to mention briefly: Using Tetris to treat amblyopia – This study has gotten quite a bit of press recently, my favorite […]
Originally posted on The Great Glasses Play Day!:
MINNEAPOLIS, MN – April 1, 2013. Researchers at Little Four Eyes have recently demonstrated that there exists a strong link between children…
Call for Canadian parents with young children in glasses
Update: Thank you to everyone who responded! I’ve forwarded your names and email addresses on to Abigail. I recently got the following request from Abigail: I am writing a story […]
In thanks
Those of us in the US are preparing to celebrate Thanksgiving later this week, a day to eat turkey (or tofurkey or whatever) with family and friends and to think […]
Pictures (of various sorts)
I realized I was horribly behind in updating our photo gallery. I’ve taken care of that, and we’re up to 159 fantastic pictures, there. As always, if I somehow missed […]
October 11, 2012 is World Sight Day
I posted this at Great Glasses Play Day, but I wanted to share it here, too. Blindness prevention is near and dear to my heart, as I think of how […]
mini-rant: pictures of babies or toddlers wearing adult glasses
All right, I’ll admit that this is kind of a minor pet peeve, but I’ve noticed it recently and it’s starting to really bug me. I’m not a fan of […]
Wise About Eyes – A Resource for Eye and Vision Information
Our family recently found ourselves in the Cleveland, Ohio area visiting family. On a free morning, we headed over to a local library to take the kids to story time. […]
Youngest member of Mensa wears glasses – and was diagnosed as delayed until she got glasses!
There’s a very sweet and interesting story over on the Today Show website that I’ve seen shared by quite a few friends this evening. A young girl, Emme, 3 years […]
new study on ordering glasses online
A study was published this past September that looked at the safety and accuracy of glasses ordered online – including children’s glasses: “Safety and compliance of prescription spectacles ordered by […]
in the news: iPads helping children with cortical visual impairment
Thanks to Bright Eyes Tampa for posting this article on facebook! Cortical visual impairment (CVI) is a disorder that stops the interpretation of visual information. Parents of children with CVI […]
For Little Eyes 