Today, there are more and more children wearing glasses around. According to the statistics, 18.5% of elementary school students are “small glasses”. How to give your child the right pair of glasses? The child’s glasses need to be dilated The child can not see the blackboard, but not necessarily the real myopia, the child may be pseudomyopia. The key to determining true myopia and pseudomyopia is to give the child a dilated eye exam. Generally doctors have to base on the results of the child’s fundus examination, combined with his age and refractive error, and then decide what medicine to use to dilate the pupil, optometry, and wait for the pupil to recover to do a second retest before prescription lenses, so the accuracy is higher, which is conducive to the correction of the child’s vision. Lenses – safety is most important At present, the market for children to use glasses lenses have two kinds of glass and resin lenses. Glass lenses are relatively hard and wear-resistant. Children are generally not as careful as adults to protect glasses, he often put the mirror directly on the desktop, wear-resistant or more suitable for them, and the price of glass is also lower. Resin sheet has the characteristics of light, thin, UV protection, strong protection, etc. Its biggest advantage is that it is not fragile, high security. If your family has a little naughty, or use the resin more at ease. The frame – comfortable and beautiful both The frame also has a plastic frame and metal frame and other types of points. Plastic frame is brittle, easy to deform, but it is lighter, soft colors, generally no nose bracket, the child will not feel pressure on the bridge of the nose. Metal frames are easier to repair and easy to change lenses, and the nose rest can adjust the distance between the lenses and the face, but the price is higher. Some children are afraid of wearing glasses because of the possibility of getting a nasty nickname. So when fitting them with glasses, parents should also take into account the child’s psychological need for beauty. Nowadays, there are more and more frames suitable for children’s face shape and age characteristics, such as frames sometimes popular angle-free hexagonal, various oval, etc.; the legs also have with cartoon patterns and various light-colored interlocking pattern decoration, etc. From the point of view of the normal development process of the eyes, 10-13 years old is the peak of the formation of myopia, if the child is in this – “dangerous period”, parents should pay more attention to it.