One change in our
lives in the fall of 2012 was the introduction of glasses to my daughter’s
every day wear. It all started on October 9, 2012, while walking around our
local Wal-Mart with my sister, who apparently took issue with her niece
constantly walking into racks of clothes. She chided me, not for the first
time, about my child walking into things and how maybe she needed her vision
checked. I am not really sure why but this time I actually did something about
it, I called our eye clinic and as it turned out they had an appointment
available the next day. So the next day as I drove my daughter to get her eyes
checked I gushed to my sister how cute she would look in glasses. It wasn’t
until after the doctor told me she actually needed them that I considered what
sort of trouble I was in for. It was then that I started imagining the
difficulty of getting a four year old to keep her glasses on.
I have to admit
that for the most part I been pleasantly surprised, whether it has been due to
the fact that they improve her vision so much or the fact that they are pink
she has taken to wearing her glasses quite easily. However we still have are
moments, like the morning when I asked why she wasn’t wearing her glasses and
she responded by saying “they don’t like my face.” (I didn’t even know how to
respond to that.) Then there have been a few times when we are pulling out of
the driveway or neighborhood and she starts screaming and crying about not
having her glasses, there are a number of factors which determine whether we go
back for them. The worst moments are when she is refusing to take them off and
go to bed, it is not easy to fight with a four year old to get her glasses off
her face without breaking them.
