Glasses

[PrincessFiona]

Well, that explains a lot.

Alex has gotten some terrible grades this year in German.

German.

Their exams for some reason contain a part that the teacher writes on the board. I don't know why. He has been bombing his tests and we've been angry with him. Finally last week, his teacher noticed him squinting to see the board. He allowed Alex to move as close as he needed to in order to read it and was a little surprised by how close Alex had to get.

Ba-da-bing --- ba-da-boom.

He went to the optometrist today and was given a prescription for glasses.

Crazy that he didn't say anything about his eyes bugging him.


Kris

[Sheherezade]

Our son had a bad vision screening in kindergarten. Horrible. We got his glasses and it was like he'd never seen anything before ever. He was constantly amazed for days. And he also had never said anything.....

[diggitydot]

DS (almost 11 y/o) has been wearing glasses for almost 6 months and there a HUGE difference in his vision with them versus without. He has to squint to even see the TV from the sofa. Still can't convince him to wear them all the time, though. We are constantly reminding him to go put on his glasses.

[Pollyanna]

Our kids never noticed either, lol. Glad the teacher discovered the issue!!

[Thirteen]

DH didn't know how people knew the songs at church "from memory" -
He got glasses around age 7, and remembers being amazed that the words were on the projection screen!

:/


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[DCJenn]

Nikolai's first reaction when he got his glasses was, "wow, everything is in 3-D". He said nothing, either.

Word of advice- buy the glasses insurance. Best $50 we've ever spent. Last year he broke three pairs of glasses in 3 weeks and this year he was hit in the face with a soccer ball in practice and one of the lenses popped out. In all of the above cases, the frames were replaced for free.

J.

[HouseofWool]

I got glasses in the third grade and apparently was shocked that trees had individual leaves.

[poky]

I got glasses in the third grade and apparently was shocked that trees had individual leaves.

My mom still remembered 50 years later being amazed when she got glasses in 6th grade and realized that the school building was made up of individual bricks.

[OrionGrad]

When I got glasses in kindergarten I told my mom I wasn't sure if I'd be allowed to wear them in school, because it might be cheating. Blew my mind when she explained this was how the other kids had been seeing for years.

[GreyhoundsRUs]

^^^ Awwww

[diggitydot]

DS was amazed that there were mountains all over when we left the office with his new glasses.

Dude, we LIVE in a mountain range.

[corn poffi]

I remember being at a basketball game when I was 7. We were up in the nosebleeds, and I kept saying, "how do you know what the score is?" "Who's winning" "how do you know is has the ball?" "Why would anybody sit up here? You can't even see what's going on!"

Yup, horrible eyes.

[GreyhoundsRUs]

I got glasses fairly young, but I don't remember what prompted it or my reaction to having my vision corrected. Strange. I do remember later (middle school) knowing when my vision was getting worse. It got so bad so fast that people couldn't believe that I couldn't see again!

[medpedspouse]

I got glasses when I was 15. I had been taking driver's ed and the instructor asked me to read a sign - I thought it said prohibited left turn when it actually said protected left turn. I am so near sighted. When I got my glasses I, too, was amazed that I could actually see the leaves on trees.