Child Myopia. This is one that gets Jake upset on a regular basis. Children (in most cases) don’t need glasses! What they need is educated parents who understand eye strain, ciliary muscle spasm, the impact of lots of close-up reading time, of staring at smart phones and computer screens.
An ounce of prevention, as they say. Read carefully through this section for lots of tips about preventing and reversing child myopia, find parents who had success banishing their child’s myopia, get hope an motivation to keep your own children’s eyes healthy!
Your Child’s Glasses: Excessive Prescriptions
The forum is becoming a increasingly good resources for blog subjects. Here is one recent topic, that fundamentally and significantly contributes to the cause of almost all myopia. Priya asks: Below are the vision test results for my daughter (5.5 yrs) from her school. Mar ’12 Right -> 6/30p Left -> 6/38pPrescription -> -1.75Apr’13 Right ->6/30 Left 6/48Prescription -> -1.75/2.00 At that time we had no clue on interpreting those results. But now I understand the above Snellen corresponds to [...]
Child Myopia Diopter Strategies
I have a whole category of the blog dedicated to child myopia (link to child myopia subjects). We can't apply all the adult strategies verbatim, since there is a big difference between most children, vs. adults: the child might not really so much care about sacrificing short term convenience, for long term gain. In fact, it is quite unlikely for most children, especially in the more vulnerable to eyesight change younger years, to be uncomfortable, for the promise of some [...]
Sara: Child Myopia Recovery – A Success Story
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 [...]
Active Focus Games For Your Children
There was a time, many years past, when our limited imagination at the #endmyopia project didn't make childrens' lives so easy. We did the exact same program as we do for adult myopia rehab, with kids. But we learned how to help children more effectively. The addition of a child psychologist helped things a lot. That and the intervening years of experience, and creativity of clients, made our child programs really come alive. Our eyesight improvement programs for the young [...]
Simple Tips For Avoiding Child Myopia
A few excerpts from Installment #11 of the Child Myopia Program: There are two main components to close-up: Distance and time. If we observe neither, we may have a child that spends three hours at 20cm from a screen – which almost certainly guarantees significant myopia in the child’s future. Our goal is to affect both time and distance, without creating a major desire for the child to cheat. This requires slow and modest changes, to give the child’s mind time to [...]
Active Focus – Key To Reversing Myopia
We talk about active focus quite a bit, though so far a proper explanation, outside of the Vision Improvement Courses, has the been lacking. Explained in some detail in #11 of the Child Myopia Reversal Course, I copy-paste the relevant parts here, to serve as future reference for this very important aspect of improving your eyesight. While some of this is in the specific context of dealing with child myopia, the core concept is relevant to all of us. We must push focus to [...]