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All parents approaching EndMyopia for their children, come with a sense of urgency. Please understand this is not a good approach. You need to be calm and rational in order to make good choices for your child. Remember myopia is not a medical condition, it is a refractive error. If your child had good vision before they should be able to have it again. Ideally a myopic adult would start with EndMyopia then help a child. It is very important that an adult who fully understands the method and what vision improvement requires, works with the child in question. | All parents approaching EndMyopia for their children, come with a sense of urgency. Please understand this is not a good approach. You need to be calm and rational in order to make good choices for your child. Remember '''myopia is not a medical condition''', it is a <u>refractive error</u>. If your child had good vision before, they should be able to have it again. Ideally, a myopic adult would start with EndMyopia then help a child. It is very important that an adult who fully understands the method and what vision improvement requires, works with the child in question. | ||
Most parents new to the method have the first instinct to take away their child's correction and take away most of if not all their favorite close-up activities. | Most parents new to the method have the first instinct to take away their child's correction and take away most of if not all their favorite close-up activities. | ||
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Now on to that other reflex reaction. If you take away all of your child's favorite and accustomed activities, they are not going to see your love for them in it. They are most likely going to hate the sudden onset of restrictions and feel like they are being punished for being myopic. While this is clearly not your intent, this is almost certainly how they will feel. Try to make gradual changes. Reducing time in extreme and static close up, needs to be a priority; so anytime you can shift phone and/or tablet activities to a tv at a greater distance this will be progress. Introduce the [[20-20-20 rule]] during close up right away, then start reducing the close work time itself where possible. | Now on to that other reflex reaction. If you take away all of your child's favorite and accustomed activities, they are not going to see your love for them in it. They are most likely going to hate the sudden onset of restrictions and feel like they are being punished for being myopic. While this is clearly not your intent, this is almost certainly how they will feel. Try to make gradual changes. Reducing time in extreme and static close up, needs to be a priority; so anytime you can shift phone and/or tablet activities to a tv at a greater distance this will be progress. Introduce the [[20-20-20 rule]] during close up right away, then start reducing the close work time itself where possible. | ||
Children have a hard time grasping [[active focus]] but encouraging them to engage with their vision through play is easy to do, when you can get them to do this outside, even better. Some ideas: sports, I-spy, kite flying, animal spotting, counting items (leaves, flowers how many of a predetermined number or letter they can spot on a walk or drive through town) etc. Try this link for ideas: [https://endmyopia.org/active-focus-games-for-your-children/ Active Focus games for kids]. | |||
While it is understandable that you want to reverse your child's myopia quickly, take into account that it is quite likely that their eyes are currently getting worse. Stopping that progression is the first big step, and even if that is all you manage, that is a win. Correct use of correction for a given task and time outdoors engaging with distance vision is typically enough to accomplish this goal. | |||
Your child may or may not choose to reverse their myopia, and hard as it is for a parent to accept, that is their choice. But enabling them to stop it's progression and giving them the option to reverse it, now that you know it is possible, is an advantage that most people don't have; children and adults alike. | |||
'''Please don't make any changes to your child's correction till you can make an informed decision'''. Communicate with your child about their vision, even preschool aged children can relay their own feedback. And do your own measurements. But keep it light, keep in mind how you would deal with your child concerning any other matter. It might be helpful to consider that myopia control and reversal is less like potty training (go hard for a few weeks and it's typically done with) and more like getting them to pick up after themselves (every parent knows this is a long haul lesson). | '''Please don't make any changes to your child's correction till you can make an informed decision'''. Communicate with your child about their vision, even preschool aged children can relay their own feedback. And do your own measurements. But keep it light, keep in mind how you would deal with your child concerning any other matter. It might be helpful to consider that myopia control and reversal is less like potty training (go hard for a few weeks and it's typically done with) and more like getting them to pick up after themselves (every parent knows this is a long haul lesson). | ||
Obviously there is the whole rest of the method to add to this and if you need more help | Other important reads: [https://endmyopia.org/child-myopia-prescription-strategies/ child myopia diopter strategies], [https://endmyopia.org/active-focus-the-key-to-reversing-myopia/ child active focus],[https://endmyopia.org/?s=childhood+myopia child myopia 1] [https://endmyopia.org/category/child-myopia-2 child myopia 2] | ||
Obviously, there is the whole rest of the method to add to this, and if you need more help Jake has an add-on to the adult [[BackTo20/20]] program. | |||