Transitioning To Eyeglasses Can Be Fun!

                                "It really is magical to see what you have not seen before!" 

I was talking to a grandmother recently who was so happy to read a story about a real princess who had to go through the process of getting eyeglasses.  She recounted how she felt as a young child when she had to get glasses and wished there had been a story that expressed how you can still be a beautiful princess while wearing glasses. 

Reading or hearing a story that matches our experience either in how we feel or in a situation we are going through is such a wonderful way to feel understood.  We often hope we can gain some key to give us confidence or assurance that everything is going to be okay.  Princess Liana doesn’t just get eyeglasses, she gets “magic” eyeglasses that help her to see everything in glorious detail.  She realizes its a gift to have magic glasses that can help her see her girlfriends, the birds, the stars in the night sky, and the beautiful buttercups that her father planted just for her.

For parents, this story will help them be thoughtful and enjoy the process of helping and watching their daughter through the transition to wearing eyeglasses.  We have a lot of influence over how children can transition through the process of getting glasses.   The eye exam, picking out glasses, and wearing them an unknown process, and its our gift to help them feel confident along the way,  If we are knowledgeable and encouraging about the process, our children will likely feel more comfortable every step of the way.  I say to get excited about your daughter’s eye exam.   Your daughter is going see her world more clearly! 

We tell stories with our eyes!

                                       

I was shopping today and noticed that with all the beautiful eyeglasses choices available, little girls can choose what they want to portray or communicate about who they are!  Eyeglasses are now like jewelry or clothes.  Would they like purple and pink swirls?  Or a certain fairy tale character?  Some girls have more than one pair of glasses for different occasions or needs.  Perhaps one very practical pair and another fancy.  

The stigma of wearing eyeglasses is still prevalent now.  We don’t hear “four eyes” as much as in the past, but it still happens.  And parents may remember their own experience of that happening.  But the choices of eyewear are fantastic now, and the opportunity to help your child have a different experience is there. I have heard mothers and grandmothers cry as they tell the story of their own experience getting glasses and how thankful they are that there is a now a princess  story they can give their own daughter or granddaughter. Moms and Grandmothers have the opportunity to help their daughters and granddaughters celebrate that they are princesses who wear eyeglasses!

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See ya,

Laura