Keeping up with Kids Glasses

My kids left them on their face at school. When they took them off at home the worst case was looking for them on top of things. Neither of them every lost their glasses until they were in high school.

If she wears them all the time, you shouldn't have to worry too much about keeping up with them. Have a set place to put them when she sleeps and when she bathes (e.g., on her nightstand beside her alarm clock and on the bathroom counter beside her toothbrush). If she has to take them off at any other time throughout the day, presumably it would only be for a few minutes at a time, right? Teach her to hook them on her shirt and not just set them down willy-nilly.

Just be sure to have a back-up pair in case of loss or damage. And don't back over them with the minivan, like I did! ; )

Does she only need them at certain times? For instance, only when reading? If that is the case, yes, you need to keep up with them; there are various pretty cords that the optometrist can sell you to keep them around her neck -- but that sounds like a recipe for breakage unless she's sitting pretty quietly....If she needs them all the time, it's a moot point; she will have them on her face all the time. Have one consistent place where she puts them at night when she goes to bed, so she does not have to hunt them down each morning.

Be SURE to buy a second pair of backup glasses. It really will help if (or when) she loses her main pair. You can get the backup pair more cheaply by taking the prescription to a mall optometrist chain like For Eyes or others.

My daughter has been wearing glasses since she was 4. If she takes them off they go in her glasses case on the bathroom shelf.

She lost one pair this year (age7) when it was raining and the lenses got wet on the way to lunch. She took them off and accidentally threw them in the garbage.

Basically have a place that your daughter puts her glasses every time she removes them and you should be fine...

Be sure to get a back up pair in case one pair gets broken. That was our biggest problem... I'd also recommend getting spring hinges and maybe transition lenses. She'll be less apt to take them off in the bright sun.

We put my son's on the entertainment center in front of the TV. Cause its in a place pretty much everyone will look at some point in the mornings. Usually at night when we tuck him in he gives them to us and we put them there. We found if they are in his room we didn't see them. It took a while before we remembered to have him put them on. What was harder is when he first got them they where just for reading so he didn't wear them all the time so he would forget them. And when he had to go to wearing them full time he would forget them and so would we. We would have to take them bakc up to the school and putting them there made it easier for us to know if he did forget them.

Good luck and God Bless!

My daughter started wearing glasses at 6yo. Since she wore them all the time, loosing them was never an issue. Also, my daughters prescription has changed every 6 months so having an extra pair just in case would have been very expensive since I bought my daughter stylish, expensive frames. She just went into contact lenses the week before she turned nine and loves them. This will also be much less expensive for me although that was not factor when we decided to try them.

My daughter found out at the age of 4 that she needed glasses. The minute they arrived and were fitted, she wore them all the time. I think they helped her out so much that they weren't tough to get used to for her. When and if she takes them off, she knows to set them down on the bathroom counter, that way they are always in the same place and they are too high for her 1 year old brother to reach. This works just fine for us. If I do not see them on her face during waking hours I always ask her where they are. Its immediate. 99% of the time, they are on the bathroom counter. Every once in a while she accidently set them on her bed while she was changing her clothes or something. We do fine with them and she is not yet 5. It can be done!

Well, I wore glasses really young and for me, the rule was the glasses always had to be in the case when not in use. So, where the case is, the glasses are. Make sure she has her case in a safe spot.. hang it on a pretty ribbon in the bathroom or something. Then, have a back-up case that stays with her in her school backpack or something.... and have a back-up pair too!

My daughter got her glasses when she was a bit shy of 5, and started kindergarten a week after she turned 5. The only time she had any issue was a few weeks into school, someone at the bus stop talked her into taking them off so they could see out the glasses or try them or similar. The lens got mega scratched on a big old rock they sit on that sits back from the bus stop (in that neighbors yard to camoflage the utility box there on the corner).

She came home crying cuz she could not see all day. Lesson learned. She loved her glasses as she could now SEE. It never happened again. Took about a week for the new lenses to come in, so it was a tough week for her with no glasses on. She missed them terribly.

At night they went into her case so the cat wouldnt knock them to the floor (she likedtot sit on her bedside table!)

We always had a lens warranty that came with kids glasses of any kind up thru till she turned 17...so 16 and under (I never knew if this was thru our place or standard in the industry as a whole thru manufacturers? I never asked as we still go to the same smaller eye place as we started at back then thru the referral...DD is 17 years old now) It meant we could get one free replacement lenses a year. Always worked and mostly we didn't actually need it unless her script changed (which it did a few times when she was young like that, or a few scratching incidents from normal wear or dropping...but none like the bus stop incident).

No one elver talked her into taking them off again and she wore them all day at school and if for some reason they got super super dirty (like sweaty??) at school, we always had it worked out to ask the teacher to clean them until she was old enough to truly do it on her own and she always had lens cleaner packets with her to offer the teacher. She now never ever goes anywhere without them. We buy them at Sams club in big boxes.. they work great on smartphone screens too!

Good luck!!

Once she realizes she cannot see well without them, misplacing them should not be an issue. At night have her put them on her nightstand or
dresser. Same place every day. When she is going to bathe, same thing.
Nightstand or dressser. My son was 2 yo when he got his glasses. He
used to hide them outside in the yard!!!!! When he got a bit older he realized he really really needed them and he never lost or hid them lol.

Since she will need them all of the time, there shouldn't be too much trouble keeping up with them. She should take them off right before bed and place them in a safe place. If it makes you more confortable, you can take them for her to keep at night. In the AM, she has to put them back on. No taking them off! I would be more concerned about her damaging them by playing hard. A big somersault can cause some damage. I would recommend an extra pair (cheapest possible)

My oldest has been wearing glasses since she was three. The rule then was you wear them, you take them off at bath time, and put them in their case on the shelf. Now she just sets them on the shelf. When she gets dressed in the morning, she puts them on. We have NEVER lost her glasses...but I've never lost or even misplaced mine, either. I wear them, I take them off at night, and put them back on in the morning.

My son started wearing glasses around 5. When he took them off they went into the case in his dresser drawer or the case on the TV cabinet in the living room. Of course this did not mean they did not get lost or broken a great deal in the beginning. I wear glasses as well and never loose mine but keeping track of his was a nightmare! I highly recommend getting a spare pair of glasses that you keep on you. I keep his in my purse at all times. We've had him break his glasses while we were on vacation once. We were going along and the lens just popped out! I also keep his prescription in my wallet at all times so we can just go to any Lenscrafters or other 1 hour type place and get him a new pair in an emergency which is what we did on vacation. We got the other pair fixed when we got back which is what started the having 2 pair.
It took a couple months but then it wasn't an issue. I think it was harder those first few months because his Dr wanted to work up to wearing them full time over a couple months as opposed to just putting them on and leaving them on. Now that it's a couple years later he only takes them off to sleep or shower or swim in which case they go in only a couple of the same places and they don't get lost anymore.

Buy 2 pairs if you can, one she wears and one that stays at home, just in case. She's not allowed to take them off unless she places them in their case beside her bed. You can do the same thing, have a case for yours and have her check up on you from time to time. It could be a game, my daughter loves scolding me from time to time when I forget my chores. Good luck.

My dad had glasses when he was 4. My grandfather made a made him a leather strap (guess he should have patented it, eh?) that they attached to the glasses so they didn't go anywhere.

My kids don't need glasses yet. However, my neighbor's kid does. They have the rule that glasses don't come off her face until bedtime. Then they are put them in a case that is on the nightstand beside their bed.

How do I know this? My daughter's have been there for a sleepover. And she has slept over here...she is VERY precise about her glasses. Almost OCD about them.

as long as shes not taking them off all the time i dont think youll have any major issues.. just makes sure she knows that when she does take them off (at night or to shower or whatever) that they haaavvvee to go in the case and on a dresser/nightstand in her room .... iv had glasses since about 5th grade once i hit highschool i stopped wearing them n got contacts .. that only lasted about 2 years they were sucha pain in the butt for me so i was wearing nothing.. my eyes just kept getting worse so about 6 months ago i finnally went to tthe eye dr to get new glasses i used to have a habit of taking them off in the bathroom before i showered and leaving them on the sink or the cabinet above the toilet and then forgetting to put them back on til the next morning .. not a good move my dad always knocks them on the floor in the morning hes always the first one to wake up and get in there.. he keeps his cheater glasses in there for when he reads the paper and a few times hes grabbed mine and put them on.. once they even got like stretched out i had to go to the doc n have them readjust them

When my daughter first got her glasses. We put a case by her bed. At night she would put her glasses there and they would be there when she woke up. This helped us keep up with them. Plus she was very excited and we reinforced all the positives and not the negatives.