Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Pillow Fights, Glasses and Little Growing Girls

Now pillow fights may be part of growing up...You know whacking each other with pillows, an all in; in PJs as kids...Every one did it. Well ,ours got out of hand the other night...Mr 5 now has a black eye, Miss 8 a bruised leg and Mr 2.5 got out of it before it turned nasty..As well s Miss 8's glasses arm got broken...ohh, well, what's health insurance for!!!

She had a script of -0.5 or such ,very minor compared to her mother, and after yesterdays appointment I discovered a few salient facts
1) Kids have a growth spurt at age 7 which effects their eyesight also,whilst the physical growth may not be very obvious, the changes to eyesight is..So have you kids eyes checked regularly esp after age 7 if not before. My little "reading machine" is now in glasses half the power of her mums!!!!( -5)

2) If either parent has myopia (shortsightness) a child is more prone to it than a child of normal sighted parents...Great, just great,..... aren't the genes we share with our kids enough!!!



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