Helping your child to improve his/her eyesight can be a challenging project. Short attention spans, general parenting challenges, the many temptations of hours of close-up time – it’s not always so easy, being a parent.

Especially with the rapid proliferation of smartphone games over the past number of years, we are seeing more children being prescribed minus lenses. The ages too are getting alarmingly younger. A child’s eye adopts more rapidly than an adults in most cases, and of course myopia is simply adaptation to strain (not some mysterious, incurable illness). Your child’s eyes will adapt fairly quickly, to hours of smartphone games in addition to school work and television.

The good news is, that it is often much faster work to undo a child’s myopia – if all the circumstances work out, and you manage to get the child to participate. A recent thread in the forum highlights just how fast progress can happen:

Hi Alex
It’s been several weeks now that Zachary has been following you program. He has developed much better habits, better distancing, regular breaks, plenty of outdoor time and his +lenses for close up ( especially for computer use).

We have recorded his measurements morning and afternoon and are pleased to say that in the last 6 weeks he has gone from 90 cm to 226 cm!! He has gradually improved every day and hasn’t has a backward measurement for the last 4 weeks, it’s truly fantastic!! We cannot thank you enough 

He is currently on the 20/25 line on the Snellen, not sure what diopter that is but must be certainly an improvement to his -1.

Out of interest if he continues with his habits and pushing will his eyes naturally recover to 20/20 or does he need to do anything else?

I’m also assuming that when his eyes fully recover it would still be worthwhile to use appropriate + lenses for close up work to prevent developing myopia in the future ?

We are so thank full to have found you and cannot thank you enough for this wonderful website full of life changing material! It has totally transformed Zachary’s world, he frequently comments on how much more he sees daily! Only yesterday he returned to school after a weeks holiday and his first comments through the door were that the school looks different as now he can see the board from the back of the room pushing on blur….it’s wonderful news .

Thank you 
Sara

You can find the full thread here:  http://www.frauenfeldclinic.com/myopia-forums/topic/massive-improvement/.

Amazing, yes? That’s weeks, not months, to get from 90cm to 226cm (centimeter tool here)- a result you will see quite rarely, so fast, in adults (but is quite achievable with children). Granted too that this is all ciliary myopia, and the child in this case is engaged and enjoying the progress.

If you have children, be sure to keep them at least 50cm away from close-up objects, enforce breaks from close-up, and if at all possible, work with them to get them away from minus lenses. It will do so much for their eyesight health, and prevent all sorts of potential complications in their adult lives.

Enjoy!