Being a parent can be difficult at the best of times, but buying a pair of glasses for your child can be extremely confusing, especially if you haven’t had to buy a pair for yourself at any time in your life. Luckily, this guide offers a number of useful tips that should help to make buying glasses for your children a much easier and straightforward task.

To start off with you will need to check with your optician to see if your child needs glasses for full or part-time wear. The answer to this question will ultimately affect the type of glasses you will need to buy. In some cases your optician might suggest specific frames depending on whether or not they are nearsighted or farsighted.

• Thickness of the lens – It is very likely that the frames will be thick if your child’s prescription calls for strong lenses, (though there is an option to upgrade to a higher index lens so the lenses are thinner). It is important to ensure that the frames are kept as small as possible to reduce their overall size. Not only this, but large frames can in fact result in blurred or distorted peripheral vision at the edges of the lenses.

• The look of the glasses – Wearing glasses as a child can be hard, especially as most kids are likely to get teased at some point in their life. Therefore, it is vital that as a parent, that you get frames that are fashionable and look ‘cool’. Doing this is likely to result in your child actually wearing the glasses, which is the main goal after all. There are other ways to help encourage your son or daughter to wear the glasses such as buying them with tints that darken outdoors.

• The material of the glasses – There are two options when it comes to the material of children’s glasses: plastic or metal. It used to be the case that plastic frames were cheaper, lighter, more durable and less likely to break; however, metal frames today incorporate all these features and therefore the decision is not as important. One thing to bear in mind is that some children can be allergic to frames that contain nickel.

• Warranties - Most reputable optical stores will offer some form of warranty on the products they sell. When buying glasses for toddlers or first-time wearers, consider opting for a company that offers to replace your glasses at no extra charge or for a small fee in case of damage to the frames or lenses.

• Get a second pair - Getting a second pair of glasses is always a good idea, but it is more so if you are buying them for your children.

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 LensWay.co.uk is your complete optical store. We design, produce and distribute a wide selection of glasses, contact lenses, sunglasses and accessories for you and your entire family. With our online model we are proud to offer consumers an affordable, convenient, friendly option for high quality brand name and private label vision care products.