Did You Wear Glasses As A Child?

[threebikesmcginty]

We recently found out that my lad, who's two and a half, is very long-sighted. Picked up his glasses yesterday, he does look very cute in them and he seems to have taken to them quite well. I thought he'd refuse to wear them at all and/or smash them (he is a bit of a bruiser as most boys are). So far his acceptance of them has exceeded our expectations. Mrs 3BM wore glasses as a child, therefore it's her defective gene at fault! She never got on with them and was, by all accounts, a right royal pain in the harris with them!

Anyone else wear them as a kid or have kids that wear them?

 

[snapper_37]

Yep. PINK National Health ones . YUK! Thankfully, kids' glasses have come on a long way - they look really cute in them.

On the same subject - the NHS have introduced some glasses to tackle child obesity....

 

[wafflycat]

I wore specs from a young age (but not as young as two-and-a-half) and hated them. Back in those days there was very little choice of frames and they were, quite frankly *horrible* things. Having had my eyes tested yesterday (which I do every couple of years as a matter of course), I was looking for new frames and one of the things I noticed was the much increased choice for kids.. saw Mr Men frames... amongst others. Kewl!

 

[Norm]

My kids both wear them, my son needed them since about 6 years old. The missus has squiffy eyes so I can also blame her but, when I started to wear reading glasses a couple of years back, my daughter was most upset that she was the only one in the family who didn't wear glasses.

She was overjoyed 2 months later when the optician told her she needed them.

 

[wafflycat]

Yep. PINK National Health ones . YUK! Thankfully, kids' glasses have come on a long way - they look really cute in them.

Same here... but I had the blue ones IIRC. I *hated* them.

 

[tyred]

From the age of about 5. Thick Buddy Holly style frames. I hated them.

 

[postman]

I'm now 60 and we had those round cheap wire ones .

 

[numbnuts]

I wore them as a child until some little shoot called me 4 eyes, I never wore them after that, now I have to wear them all the time now

 

[Globalti]

I was found to need glasses at about 10 but a routine test picked up my son at about 6, he wore glasses for a couple of years and now doesn't need them any more, which is a great.

On the day I got my new glasses the headmaster looked at me, smiled and said "they make you look like Wise Owl", which was an act of kindness and sensitivity I never forgot. I always say the same to young kids with glasses nowadays.

 

[postman]

These are the type third pair down .

 

[automatic_jon]

I wore them as a child, although from about 8 onwards but probably needed them before that, and I'm still wearing them. I'n fact due to my stupidly small brain head I still wear children's NHS glasses, which as a filthy student I still get for free.

 

[Fnaar]

I occasionally make a spectacle of myself...
(looks for coat, but can't focus properly)

 

[snapper_37]

Same here... but I had the blue ones IIRC. I *hated* them.

My best friend had a blue pair, with a pink sticky plaster over the one lens, poor sod.

Also, IIRC, you were not only picked on for wearing glasses BUT having NHS ones, you were looked at as 'mommy and daddy's got no money'.

 

[Crackle]

Black, with the curly metal that went around the ears, from age 11. I only ever wore them in class and took them off at all other times. I lost several pair out my blazer pocket whilst cycling home and I used to name all my glasses cases Bert. Somewhere upstairs I have Bert IX all the rest gave their life to the cause. I don't know at what point I began to wear them permanently, around 18 or 19, by which time I'd got slightly more adult ones.

 

[Fnaar]

The ends of a couple of milk bottles, with frames made from the wire of coat hangers...

One of my kids has had to wear glasses since age 7 or so... now in teens and onto contact lenses... she's an organised sort, so no probs there.