Characters with glasses

[Mommy of 2]

So I have 2 girls and the oldest, soon to be 3 needs to wear glasses full time to help her condition of accomodative esotropia. I am so disappointed that there are no strong disney female characters to have my lil girl look to. She loves the princesses and I feel that it would be a great idol for a young girl to see and beautiful princess wearing glasses, instead of the girl who wears glasses and when she takes them off she becomes beautiful. Anyone else out there feel as strongly as I do? If so, how can we get disney to hear us and help our lil angels feel special?!

 

[unkadug]

Studies show that children that are asked to draw a picture of a smart person will add glasses as a finishing touch.

Smart people are generally happier than those whose beauty has failed them after having relied on their looks to get them by.

 

[lazyboy97o]

Is there really much of a stigma still with wearing glasses?

 

[Mommy of 2]

not so sure about a stigma but it would just be nice to represent all types of kids in s positive light. i think it would be easier to keep glssses on certain kids if they knew there were characters to admire. i have already been told awe i hope your kids glasses are temporary because they had them and were self conscious. there will always be negative people but it would be nice to turn to your kid and say well so and so wears glasses too.just a thought. was curious if other people felt the same as i do.

 

[Mommy of 2]

please ignore my typos

 

[RandomPrincess]

My daughter is 4 and just got glasses. Thankfully she has had no issues with teasing or self confidence due to them. She also has to wear ans eye patch, 3 hours a day (lazy eye). I'm more worried about it for her then she is. She could care less and happily rocks her Hello Kitty eye patch. We only ever had her out in public so far once with it and no one even batted an eye.

I did buy her a Hello Kitty stuffed animal with glasses and she thought that was neat she loves Hello Kitty. Disney had a line of with Mickey and Minnie wearing glasses. You might be able to still find some.

 

[bsiev1977]

Wouldn't it be easier to just point to some real people who wear glasses, rather than worry about using fictional characters as role models?

 

[Gabe1]

My daughter is 4 and just got glasses. Thankfully she has had no issues with teasing or self confidence due to them. She also has to wear ans eye patch, 3 hours a day (lazy eye). I'm more worried about it for her then she is. She could care less and happily rocks her Hello Kitty eye patch. We only ever had her out in public so far once with it and no one even batted an eye.

I did buy her a Hello Kitty stuffed animal with glasses and she thought that was neat she loves Hello Kitty. Disney had a line of with Mickey and Minnie wearing glasses. You might be able to still find some.

I was born with a lazy eye and did the patch etc. too. Also had to endure all sorts of eye therapy. The one thing that it does effect down the road is reading skills, often times their eyes see two different words at one time and it tends to make them loose their place, so reading aloud is frustrating. My kids to a lesser extent were both born with weak eye muscles in one eye which I caught quickly given my own history. The pediatric ophthalmologists had dumped eye patches. They were both given eyeglasses that had prisms in them. (you can't see the prisms when looking at the child). The prisms forced their vision straight while strengthening the eye muscles unlikely patches that just strengthen them. Both my kids wore glasses for about 3 years and that was it with their vision being 20/20 from that point forward. Wish they had prism glasses when I was small, my kids were spared all the eye exercises and stuff I had to endure. Progress, got to love it.

Anyhow, kids were somewhat envious of my kids glasses, one little boy in Kindergarten even stole my sons glasses cause he wanted glasses. Never did my kids have any issues about feeling different for having them at school or at play with their peers.

 

[Magenta Panther]

Harry Potter wears glasses...

As for Disney characters, there's this guy:

 

[RandomPrincess]

I was born with a lazy eye and did the patch etc. too. Also had to endure all sorts of eye therapy. The one thing that it does effect down the road is reading skills, often times their eyes see two different words at one time and it tends to make them loose their place, so reading aloud is frustrating. My kids to a lesser extent were both born with weak eye muscles in one eye which I caught quickly given my own history. The pediatric ophthalmologists had dumped eye patches. They were both given eyeglasses that had prisms in them. (you can't see the prisms when looking at the child). The prisms forced their vision straight while strengthening the eye muscles unlikely patches that just strengthen them. Both my kids wore glasses for about 3 years and that was it with their vision being 20/20 from that point forward. Wish they had prism glasses when I was small, my kids were spared all the eye exercises and stuff I had to endure. Progress, got to love it.

Anyhow, kids were somewhat envious of my kids glasses, one little boy in Kindergarten even stole my sons glasses cause he wanted glasses. Never did my kids have any issues about feeling different for having them at school or at play with their peers.

Thanks for the tip about possible reading issues. My daughter has been doing patching for 3 months and it has made a big difference combined with glasses. She is already making an improvement. Hopefully it will be completely corrected in a few years like you children. My brother was the same he had glasses one year as a child and perfect vision since.

 

[Gabe1]

Thanks for the tip about possible reading issues. My daughter has been doing patching for 3 months and it has made a big difference combined with glasses. She is already making an improvement. Hopefully it will be completely corrected in a few years like you children. My brother was the same he had glasses one year as a child and perfect vision since.

Welcome. My DS struggled early on with reading. He, like me, tends to read with one eye, early on coloring, you will be able to tell by how they tilt the head to more center the dominate eye if that occurs. Both read and still do slower than others but comprehension is was just fine, which is all that matters. With DS loosing his place reading, it was suggested he use an index card moving down the printed page as not to loose place. It helped a great deal. DD being 5 grades younger read along with a Kindle for the novels assigned by teachers. She still does this in college, she downloads all of her college textbooks and can listen to text to save save time. This wasn't available when my DS was in college. Both went onto great colleges, DD graduated HS in the top 1% of her class, so if her vision glitch was to be her disability it all worked out just fine! A minor bump in the road that's all.

 

[RandomPrincess]

Welcome. My DS struggled early on with reading. He, like me, tends to read with one eye, early on coloring, you will be able to tell by how they tilt the head to more center the dominate eye if that occurs.

That's what keyed my daughter's preschool teachers that she should get her eyes checked. Her eye only crosses in when she is trying to focus on something small in front of her.

 

[Gabe1]

That's what keyed my daughter's preschool teachers that she should get her eyes checked. Her eye only crosses in when she is trying to focus on something small in front of her.

That Teacher is a Keeper! Woot!

 

[Bairstow]

 

[imagineer boy]

IMHO you should tell your daughters that they should look up to a character based on the way they act, no because of the way they look or if they wear glasses or not.

 

[Mommy of 2]

My daughter is 4 and just got glasses. Thankfully she has had no issues with teasing or self confidence due to them. She also has to wear ans eye patch, 3 hours a day (lazy eye). I'm more worried about it for her then she is. She could care less and happily rocks her Hello Kitty eye patch. We only ever had her out in public so far once with it and no one even batted an eye.

I did buy her a Hello Kitty stuffed animal with glasses and she thought that was neat she loves Hello Kitty. Disney had a line of with Mickey and Minnie wearing glasses. You might be able to still find some.

thanx for your response my daughter is the same i think like you i worry more than her. i appreciate all the support. its new to me and helpful that most people can understand my concerns.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

My daughter just got glasses this year. She takes care of them better than I do my own. I don't think there's such a stigma about being younger and wearing glasses anymore since they come in such kid-oriented frames. I know you said you have daughters but Leo from Little Einsteins wears glasses. There are also two really good books about little girls getting glasses. One is Fancy Nancy and the other Charlie & Lola. These will help.