jack has glasses!!! i need help now!

Its a really hard one because initially they may make his vision seem worse. His logic will be "but I can see better without them so why wear them...silly mummy" but it is important to persevere. What does he need them for. It might be that you can get away initially with having them for certain tasks. Most lazy eyes are because one or both eyes are quite long sighted and therefore the reading will be his hardest task. That is when he is likely to see clearly through the glasses and find things easier so maybe focus(excuse the pun) on wearing them for close up tasks and slowly build him up to wearing them more.

It does take eyes a bit of getting used to new glasses. Remember a little is better than nothing so go for little and often and avoid big battles until he is more comfy.

In the US they have these things called Croakies or Croakers; they're a soft stretchy headband that fits over the arms and around the back of the head. Do they exist here? I'd ask the eye doctor what you can do or if they have anything to help him keep them on. I had to wear glasses from quite an early age too, and my mother tied them around my head with a bit of sewing elastic! LOL

My brother had glasses from very young and wore them without fuss because he was so blind without them.

The main problem we had was kids at kindy said mean things to him about the glasses and then he didn't want to wear them. The kindy teacher had a talk to all the kids about glasses and they were all nicer about it after that - anyway, if you can actually get your son to wear them it might be worth covering this base with kindy/daycare etc...

Umm... it's a bit different for Josiah because he needs his glasses to see properly (where normal 20/20 vision is 0, his new glasses are scripted at +7, which is incredibly strong especially for someone as young as he is)

We let him dictate how much he wore them when we first got his first pair a year ago. We encouraged him to wear them... things like "You need your glasses on before Mummy will read you that story" or "Put your glasses on and then we'll have afternoon tea"... but if he took them off after a couple of minutes then that was fine too. Eventually he built up to wearing them for half a day at a time, then all day. Even now we don't force him to wear them, if he wants to take them off we encourage Josiah to put them back on but we don't push the issue.

Remember Jack is not used to having something on his face all the time and his ears and nose will get sore from the pressure. My FIL has had glasses for a while, and he told Nat the other day that a new script can take a couple of days to get used to and can hurt the eyes for a little while. Josiah initially complained of sore eyes and headaches with his first pair.

Hey, I'm glad he has his glasses now. I would go with the softer approach of rewarding him till he realises they make things better, if you push it he may resist wearing them more and I know I don't ever leave my sunnies on for long cos they start to irritate the bridge of my nose.