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Summary: Many children don't like to wear their eyeglasses, but allowing kids to be involved in picking their eyeglass frames may help. Learn more in this free video on children and eyeglasses.
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About the Expert
Stefan Czelusta Stefan Czelusta is the office manager at Texas State Optical in Austin, Texas. He has worked in optics for more than nine years. Czelusta helps customers choo... read more
Perhaps the most important thing in selecting a frame for a child is letting the child be involved in the process and that includes listening to them. Too many times I see parents come in and dictate to a child what they should like, what looks good also. You can't be blamed for what they can afford but generally speaking their are frames of all types of price points and all types of designs. We'll take a look at a few of them. You're going to see over here that we have in the adidas collection multiple colors. We have a pink frame, a mat gold frame, and a blue frame. Most of your frame styles in every frame collection come in multiple colors and often times a child has a favorite color that they like. So if you find a frame that fits really good and a child is not thrilled with it, what color do they like? Maybe they'd like that in a different color. Listen to the child because if the child does not like the frame, they're going to lose that within a couple of weeks. They're going to come back home from school and say so and so took my frame, I lost my frame I don't know where it is but if they like their frame, they like the color of their frame and they can get excited about at least a part of it; then they're going to keep their frame. They're going to watch out for their frame. It's something that they like, that they picked out. So you've engaged the child in the process. It helps make for a more collective experience for the child and like I said they're probably going to enjoy at least you know the style of the glasses, if not wearing glasses themselves. So it's better off for both parties, the parents and the child if they let the child take part.