my daughter is rejecting her new eyeglasses!?

I think spending a lot of time trying to logically explain and justify to a 6 year old why she should wear her glasses is a waste of time. If you do explain it, keep it as simple as possible.

Part of the problem is, because she is only about 6, it is possible that few, if any, of her classmates that wear glasses yet, if she is the only one there with glasses, she will feel very self concious.

Also, try to find out what happened at school the day she came back crying.

If your husband picked out frames that are totally ridiculous, you might need to get new ones, and have her pick them out, if at all possible.

Maybe, at first, just try to get her to wear her glasses at home to watch TV, etc when she is alone (no one will even see her). If you can get her comfortable with that, then try having her wear them when other members of the family are around, then when she is comfortable with that, have a few of her friends over while she wears them (make sure these friends have been briefed not to make any snide remarks about glasses!). Once she becomes comfortable with this, you can try taking her in public where she is unlikely to meet anybody she knows (since they are strangers, they are unlikely to say anything about her glasses and they won't know she just got them either). Eventually, she will become used to them enough that you can get her to wear them to school. Because this will take a while, you might see if you can temporarily get copies of the teacher's notes if she can't see what's on the board at school.

First of all at six, there is some chance that the prescription is wrong. Your doctor either depended completely on objective tests or on the responses of a six year old. I sometimes tell parents of very young children that I have done my best to get their prescription accurate and I am confident in it but if the child rejects her glasses to bring her back.

Second, if she is near sighted, the glasses are only enabling her to see more clearly, they are not preventing future vision problems or repairing her eyes. My younger brother and several of my nephews resisted wearing their glasses even though they saw much better with them. In my younger brothers case, I didn't have any say in what was done. In my nephews' case, I told my sister to make sure they wore them enough to succeed at school and that the rest was optional. Many factors determine your prescription as an adult but I can say that my brother ended up more near sighted than my nephews.

You should see your eye doctor again. Ask him to double check her prescription and about the necessity of her wearing glasses to develop properly.

Just be a parent and tell her some times we have to do things we dont want to do. Tell her she must wear the glasses to see and there is no other way. She should be told that some poor kids never see correctly because they cant afford to get glasses. She is lucky to have glasses.

Also tell her many people wear glasses and even famous people wear glasses too. And that once she wears them for a while the other kids will get used to her wearing them and wont comment about it anymore.

6 is tough, as you're not really dealing with a child on a logical level. But it's never too early to start.

If anything, you might try stressing how she needs to wear the lenses to help her eyes develop properly, so they will be stronger as she gets older, and she MAY NOT need to wear them (I don't know the details of her case).

Maybe a good time to start her thinking about how she needs to do what's in HER best interests, and not worry about what others think. Would you allow her to not take medicine if the other kids laughed? Would she jump off a bridge if others did it?

Just saying, it's part of transitioning to becoming a free-thinking person, and not allow fear of others to stand in the way of what she needs to do for HER own good.

You might consider using some kind of incentive, such as a reward for wearing them. Don't think of it a bribe, as it's not: it's an incentive or reward for doing what's good for her anyway, and doing a good job.

She'll eventually get it once she realizes its easier to see, and have the benefit of being a stronger individual, too.

My daughter first started wearing glasses at the age of eight. At first, she didn't like wearing her glasses and kept forgetting to bring them when we went to movies. That all changed when her prescription started getting much worse and she found that she couldn't really function without her glasses. Now, she's 19 years old and the first thing she does when she wakes up in the morning is to reach for her glasses.

I'd try having her watch a movie with the cartoon character being one she likes is wearing glasses and she if that will influence her. Or try talking to her about what happened that day to make her not wear the glasses.

My daughter had the same problem till a few family members had come over and told her how grown up or beautiful she looked with them on, after that she wore them no problem.

Well, I got glasses when I was ten, and I refused to wear them as well. Eventually, I would wear them only when I had to look at the board. However, I was in middle school, and since she is in elementary school, it might be too difficult for her to keep up with them if she has to keep taking them off and putting them on again.

So, how do you get her to wear her glass? Hmm...

I don't know if this will help, but here is some advice from eHow.com:

http://www.ehow.com/how_4585_child-wear-glasses.ht...

http://www.ehow.com/how_4713277_encourage-kids-wea...

Some of these suggestions seem pretty good.

Here are some children's books about wearing glasses:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_nr_n_0?rh=i...

Maybe if she realizes that plenty of other people have glasses to, she won't be so nervous about wearing them.

Also, maybe you could tell her that, if she continues to wear her glasses, you will get her contacts when she is older. Maybe you can set an age (I got contacts when I was fourteen.) when she will get them so she has something to look forward to in the future.

Hope this helps and good luck!

My nephew had glasses thicker than coke bottle bottoms . I fought him all the way Finally i told him if he could run full speed at the wall and not hit It would not worry about him . I know it was mean and cruel but when he stopped crying it was over been 15 yrs never takes em off now .

Just say that she'll be happier if she sees the world clearly instead of blurry and that she is not the only person in the world who has to use glasses...most people (including me!) will need to use glasses at some point in their lives.

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