Posted by mom of glasses wearing child on August 17, 2001 at 22:21:09:
In Reply to: Taunted for wearing glasses posted by Sharon on July 25, 2001 at 11:48:39:
my daughter has worn glasses since she was 4. her eyes are terrible. preschool and kindergarten were ok. 1st & 2nd grade kids teased and she didn't wear them very faithfully when out of my sight. 3rd grade we got contacts. the condition was that she could put them in and take them out and knew how to care for them. our eye doctor was great and taught her all about caring for her contacts and eyes. he taught her to put them in and take them out and gave her 3 pairs of samples to play with while we waited for her contacts to come in. we chose the disposables for cleanliness as well as convenience. not only do we not have to do the soak and sterilize thing, she can actually put them in on sunday and leave them until saturday take them out for a day to soak in saline solution then back in for another week then throw them out. only you know if your son is mature enough to handle contacts, but i suggest it is an option to look into. it did wonders for my daughter's self image and kids just thought her eyes 'got better'.
: My son has been wearing glasses for about 2 years now. My son would come home and cry about how his "friends" were calling him names for wearing glasses - glasses that he "needs" to wear because one of his eyes is a lot weaker than the other. He was always leaving them behind on purpose. He told me that he didn't need glasses but deep down inside he knew he did. He had been tormented throughout this past year in second grade. He had enough of the name calling when one day he had presented his glasses to me one 1/2 in each hand (after I asked why he wasn't wearing them). He cried and said it was an accident but I know exactly what it was. The kids in his class would start calling him names and then they get the band rolling and everybody starts out calling him names. He's going into third grade and I'm wondering how can I help build his morale so that he knows that he has to be his own person and not worry about what the other kids are saying. Yes, it is very easy for me to say it but he has to deal with these kids again come September. I'm hoping that things will be different since the kids would have aged at least a year. Does anyone have any pointers on what I need to do, what I should say to my son or what he should do??? He just wants everyone to like him.