The Princess Who Wore Glasses: 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!