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Overall the point is not to get your child to try to force focus, just engage with their vision, if they have better vision habits and a genuine desire to see well because they are engaged with an activity, their eyes will do the rest.
Overall the point is not to get your child to try to force focus, just engage with their vision, if they have better vision habits and a genuine desire to see well because they are engaged with an activity, their eyes will do the rest.
See also: [[Child Myopia]]

Revision as of 14:39, 12 April 2021

Active Focus is a difficult concept to convey, even more so to children. For this reason we largely stick to encouraging children to engage with their vision in the most natural way possible; through play. Keep in mind that tracking motion is a great means to engage with vision, and shifting focus is important as well. What is most important is that you find things your child will want to do, if their vision improvement journey becomes a chore they are less likely to participate.

You know your child best, consider their interests and be creative. Just being away from that static close up distance is a great start so things like swimming, fishing, hiking and playing on the playground are good. The more your child is engaged with their vision the better. Here are some ideas to get you started: bird spotting, animal watching, kite flying, remote controls, I-spy, counting games (leaves, flower pedals how many of a predetermined number or letter they can spot on a walk or drive through town etc), finding shapes in the clouds, and all kinds of sports. A few more sport ideas: soccer, football, badminton, frisbee, tag, catch, baseball, basketball, biking, bowling, golf, archery and all sorts of target type games, tennis, ping pong, ring toss, bean bag toss and other similar games and naturally the list could go on for quite sometime.

Still another idea: have a craft time and create visual aids with your child. Pick something your child likes and make 6 to 10 of them with one or two small detail variables and turn them into magnets. For example butterflies with varying numbers of spots, flowers with different numbers of pedals, monsters with different numbers of eyes or arms, wheels with different numbers of spokes, their favorite character with different expressions, make it personal to your child. Now you have an engaging set of visual aids that you can rearrange on the fridge.

Overall the point is not to get your child to try to force focus, just engage with their vision, if they have better vision habits and a genuine desire to see well because they are engaged with an activity, their eyes will do the rest.

See also: Child Myopia