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is 12 too young?? Poll
Skylar is desperately wanting contacts this year for school. I'm thinking she is a little young, but she has had her glasses for over a year now and does SOO well with those. Wears them every day, cleans them daily, puts them in a case at night, so he has hit the responsibility levels with that. I know a 14 year old who still has his MOM put in his contacts and take them out every day. She knows rules..and if she cna't handle putting them in or taking them out herself, they are out of the question. My insurance does not cover vision, so call me selfish, but it would be a TON cheaper! (her glasses a year and a half ago cost me over $400!)
So what do you think?? Contacts or no contacts.....
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Re: is 12 too young?? Poll
Let her try it, if she doesn't take care of them properly, you can go back to the glasses.
I got contacts when I was 12, right before I started 7th grade. I did fine with them. I had been wearing glasses for 4 years and hated them, especially during dance classes. I was training at a dance studio 4 days a week at that time, and wearing contacts during dance class made a big difference. Wearing glasses can be a hassle for active kids.
Mr. Sammy Dog
Lucky is right.
The optometrist or someone else at the eye doctor's office should teach her how to put them in, you shouldn't do that for her. They know all the tricks and tips that help kids learn to put in and take out the lenses properly. When I got my first contacts, the eye doctor wouldn't send them home with me until I could show her that I could put them in by myself. I guess the thinking was that if a kid couldn't put the lenses in without help, the kid wasn't ready for contacts.
Mr. Sammy Dog
I didn't reply to the poll, but wanted to share here. As someone in the profession (vision care) contact lenses and their use should absolutely not be related to an "age." Contact lenses take a lot of care and responsibility and if you feel that your daughter is responsible enough to take care of the contact lenses on a twice-daily+ basis then you should have that conversation with her optometrist. And, as has been discussed above, if you have to help her with them, then she is not ready for them. She has to be able to manage them solely (in case something happens at school, at a friends, at a game, etc.). I can tell you that there are 8-year-olds that are responsible enough to have contacts and that there are 40-year-olds that aren't responsible enough (but get them anyway).