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hello R.
maybe try taking her to pic out some new diff frame or maybe get some pretty little craft stones and dec them out the way she like them she will give it a try ,well good luck

Hi R.,

I had the same problem with my little girl. She is supposed to wear glasses because she has an astigmatism and one of her eyes is weaker than the other. The Dr prescribed her glasses when she was about a year old, unfortunately she has medicaid and children with special needs insurance so they only pay for certain kinds of frames, and the frames that were available were either way to big or to small. We settled on the frame that the optomotrist thaught fit her better, within a few months they were to small and I could never get her to wear them anyway before that, I talked to her eye Dr and she said since her eyes weren't changing to wait a while till she got a little older to start her on a new pair. She is now three years old and has a new pair of glasses and is still having the same problem with the fit. Maybe that is what is wrong is they aren't fitting her right and they are uncomfortable. My personal experience is wait till she is a little older unless it affects her walking or being able to see to eat to try the glasses again or make a game of it. Also talk to her eye Dr. they are the experts. Maybe the nose pieces bother her nose that is the problem with my daughters glasses and we have adjusted them to where they are almost broken because the bridge of her nose is a little wide.

I hope this advice works for you and Good Luck. J.

Hi R.. Your doctor should be able to get you "No-No's". They are a 'sleeve' with a board and it velcros around her arms, so she can't bend them to get at her glasses. It may sound a little mean, but they are usually used frequently in young kids to keep glasses or eye patches on when they are taking them off all the time. It is similar to boarding a child with an IV. After a while she should get the hint that everytime she messes with her glasses she gets them on for a few minutes. Check with your doctor. Good luck and take care. A.

You can buy these straps that attach to the glasses. They will hold the glasses to the head, so they can't come off. This is smart, not only to get her used to them, but so she doesn't break them by having them fall off when she'd playing.

I seen a little girl recently with glasses on that looked like goggles. They went around her head on a strap. They sort reminded me of sport glasses that my brother use to were for football, maybe ask about something like that.

hi,
you could try buying a strap, like people who play sports wear. Go to the eye doctor and see if they can hook you up. I have a niece that had to wear glasses at 6 months. They put a strap on her after her hiding them everytime she could get them off. It worked though.
Good luck!

You might try to put them on her just before she wakes up from sleeping. That way she might not realize she wearing them until she realizes she can see better.

One of my sons was about 2 when he got glasses. Initially, he had to wear a patch over his "good" eye to try and strengthen the "bad" eye and he really hated that. It was kind of like a big bandaid that went over his eye. When he got his glasses we had a terrible time getting him to keep his glasses on too - partly because initially when they look through the glasses they cannot see better because their eyes haven't adjusted to the glasses yet so what they see through the glasses is worse. What our eye doctored told us to do, and it worked WONDERFULLY for us, was only make him wear his glasses for a set amount of time and then gradually increase the time until he wore them all day long. So first time = 5 minutes; second time = 7 minutes; third time = 9 minutes, etc. and do not fight with him about wearing them - urge him, but don't force him. It's tedious, but it really works. The next thing I would say to do is make sure you pay the extra money to buy the replacement guarantee for both the frames and the lenses. My son is 6 now and we've had to get either his frames or his lenses replaced about 10 times for all kinds of crazy things - once at school he got hit in the face with a ball; once grandpa sat on them; once he fell at a playground and a lense popped out - which we never found!, etc., etc. You'll save tons of money if you do that.

GOOD LUCK!

P.S. My son had to have bifocals added when he was about 4 years old and that was a difficult adjustment for him too.