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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 here: [https://wiki.endmyopia.org/wiki/Focus_Games_for_Kids focus games]. It is important to discourage squinting and blinking unnaturally hard in order to clear blur. These are both bad habits to form and difficult to break. If you have a fairly good handle on active focus, your child is a little older and feel you can convey active focus to your child on their level by all means do so. However for the most part children are going to be more inclined to clear blur when it is part of an activity, rather than the clearing of blur being the activity alone. | 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 here: [https://wiki.endmyopia.org/wiki/Focus_Games_for_Kids focus games]. It is important to discourage squinting and blinking unnaturally hard in order to clear blur. These are both bad habits to form and difficult to break. If you have a fairly good handle on active focus, your child is a little older and feel you can convey active focus to your child on their level by all means do so. However for the most part children are going to be more inclined to clear blur when it is part of an activity, rather than the clearing of blur being the activity alone. | ||
==Stabilization | ==Prioritize Stabilization== | ||
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, time outdoors engaging with distance vision, and good near work habits is typically enough to accomplish this goal. | 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, time outdoors engaging with distance vision, and good near work habits 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. | 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. | ||
==Important== | ==Important== | ||