Your optometrist may like to rely on a $50,000 auto refractometer. You can beat the accuracy of that technology, with some lego toys.
Once you consider what those tools really do, the need to spend big money on them becomes a bit more of a nebulous topic. The only thing that they look for, is how far your child’s eye can focus effectively. That’s it. No staring deeply into the child’s soul, no answers about the meaning of life. Just – how far can you see, before things look blurry?
Someone cynical may say that these machines are selling tools. Methods of intimidation.
Of course we here are not cynical at all, so we will just consider the need for a new-car-price-equivalent auto refractometer as one of life’s many mysteries.
In the Child Myopia rehab program I show you how to use the 50 cent tape measure, and a few lego men, to measure your child’s myopia with exceeding accuracy. It will take more than one try, and a bit of participation on the child’s end. So while you may drag him/her kicking and screaming to the optometrist, and just a minute of sitting still in the office may give you a result, my way takes some cooperation. Maybe that explains the price tag of those refractometers.
But then, they are also not very accurate, at all. My peers bristle at this statement, so I avoid it in polite, professional company. Still, I have compared dozens of these high priced solutions, literally thousands of times. The tape measure always wins the accuracy competition.
All you really need is a good story (for the child), a cheap measuring tape, a flat board, a comfortable horizontal surface for the child, and some lego toys. That and a few minutes will tell you all you need to know about the true myopia value.
What’s more is that you can do this measurement any time you like. No office visits required.
My favorite part though, is that if you do it well, your child will want to do his/her own measurements. Improvements will suddenly tangibly mean something to your child. He/she will want to cooperate, and learn about ways to improve results. It’s all part of the game, the way to sell vision health to the child, and create scenario that requires little parental push.
This is the true genius of the Child Rehab Program. Yes, it is just the adult program, repackaged with ‘child’ written on it. But not really – because while I don’t work that much on motivating you, I do add a lot of the psychological factors to your child process. You can take the adult program and force it on the child – but if you want results that you don’t have to always prompt for, I say go for the lego toys, rather than the optometrist shop.
Enjoy!
