Cartoon Eyeglasses

My 4 1/2 year old DD failed her vision screening at the pediatrician's office. I had glasses in 2nd grade, but I am sure I needed them sooner. I have an appointment for a pediatric optometrist in a few weeks, and I would like to prepare her a little bit without overdoing it since I don't actually know whether or not she'll need glasses. She's showing a lot of early signs though (rubbing eyes when at computer, complaining of eyes hurting, etc). No one in the family now wears glasses(I had LASIK), so she will be "alone."

I have searched for a female cartoon character that positively portrays wearing glasses. Any suggestions? What about books and/or toys? I don't want to pump it up too much and her be disappointed if she doesn't need them.

I started wearing glasses when I started kindergarten and I was the only one in my family as well. My mom told me that I needed them to be able to see better and I put them on and that was it. There weren't any books or cartoons to make me feel better about them and I was fine - once she can see clearly she might just distract herself within her 'new' environment. Don't make a big deal about it and she probably won't either.

2008-10-30 18:36:36 by Jamie R

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I mean...she has a funny little voice, funny hairstyle, funny eyeglasses, and often times looks like a deer caught in headlights when trying to answer interview questions. Could she be some sort of cartoon character masquerading as a vice-presidential candidate? Don't get me wrong.
I mean...don't get me wrong. I'm not a Democrat.

>>>looks like a deer caught in headlights when trying to answer interview questions<<<

Well, anyone would look like a deer caught in headlines if they were asked trip-you-up "gotcha" questions about NONEXISTENT things.

Case in point: when Charlie Gibson asked her to explain the "Bush Doctrine."

There is NO such thing as the "Bush Doctrine."

Watch the VP debate -- I wouldn't be surprised if she did well against Biden.

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2008-10-01 18:29:52 by JODIE_A.

When I was in elementary school in California, the textbooks we used were very weird and unique, and featured three cartoon kids name Ann, Sam and Ted. The rightside pages of the books would little sections that taught you how to pronounce words and the answers were in a gray column on the left side of the page. Everything that was on the pages on the left were upside down. When you got to the end of the book you flipped it upside down and started again. The three children would teach words with the aid of bizarre creatures, like a pencil with bird legs and wearing big eyeglasses. No one I ever met knows what books I'm talking about, and if it wasn't for my sister's confirmation that the books really existed I would have thought I had imagined them. Does ANYONE at all know what I'm talking about?

OMG! I remember those books! They were so cool! I loved them! They were large paperbacks and they would teach you how to read and stuff. It would give a sentence like "Ted has a HAT." And then there would be three items and you had to pick the hat. The books were drawn in full color, and there were more people than just Ann, Sam & Ted, but the story line was mainly about them. I remember my first grade teacher also had a huge flip chart made by the same company that made the books and it told a story about the three of them wandering down a path into some alphabet world or something. That's where you saw the pencil creature. I actually found a box of those books (the whole set of 20) at a yard sale for $2, but they were destroyed in a flood. I've searched the entire internet for them but I can't even find a reference to them. I know what you meant when you said it's like they never existed. If anyone has some of those books, I'd be willing to pay good money to buy them from you. Drop me an email!

2008-09-26 12:40:39 by kjv_gods_word

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It has come to my attention that my 9 year old daughter has been relentlessly tormenting a classmate of hers whom is suffering from cancer. She has been calling her "Baldo" because of her hair loss due to chemotherapy and doing other inane things such as staggering around her with a stick for a cane and groaning "Ughhh....I'm dying!" In arts and crafts class, she made a tiny coffin out of popsicle sticks and stuck it inside the poor girl's desk.

Seeing the fact that I personally watched my own dad succumb to cancer when I was only 13, I am completely livid with rage at the insensitivity and cruelty coming from my own 9 year old girl, and twice as enraged that she would find such a horrific ordeal FUNNY! I'm so infuriated, I'm still shaking as I type.

After the Christmas break when she has to return to school, I am going to shave her head completely bald just like the girl is, trade her stylish eyeglasses for huge nerdy ones, and make her wear ridiculous clownish looking clothes so she can have a taste of what it's like to be ridiculed. In addition, since the afflicted girl is too sick to play in gym sports, recess, and whatnot, I'm going to tell them make my daughter sit out with her too so she can feel what it's like to be sick constantly and not be able to run and play with all of the other kids.

Then in addition to THAT, whenever the family goes on outings to fun events, I'm going to say to her "Oopsie--doesn't look like you're feeling well! Gotta stay with the babysitter tonight and just watch cartoons! Yeah, that's cancer for you. Not so fun, is it?"

There is no excuse for making fun of a child sick with cancer, and I want her to be on the receiving end along with this suffering child so she can know what it's like.

And I want this to continue until the sick girl HERSELF says that my daughter and her are best buddies.

What do you think?
Okay, well then how about I just shave her head and have her sit out with the sick girl during sports and recess, as well as no family outings? I want her to feel what the girl feels!
Lukas: This is a forum for adults. Go watch Spongebob.

I don't think it is abusive but you can be sure someone will tell you it is and cause you problems.

Why not call the little girls parents and ask them if over the holidays and till the end of the school year could your daughter become the sick little girl's and mom's helper.

Explain to the mother that you are not trying to hurt her child in any way but need for your child to understand the full extent of what it is to have a family memeber this sick and how it not only affects the person but the entire family. Inaddition let the mother know that this will also give her the help you feel sure she needs.

If she agrees then set up times a few days a week to where your daughter has to be there to help the mother by doing some of the things she has to do to help take care of her sick daughter. Also, expain to your daughter she is to take time to do things of interest with the girl and make sure the girl enjoys herself and that it will be her responsibility to make sure each of her visits are planned in advance for how much time she will help the mom and how much time she will spend with the little girl.

Have your daughter keep a journal of each visit of her thoughts and feelings. She will also need to learn everything she can about the little girls cancer and how the little girl and her family deal with it.

Everyday have her read to you what she has written so that the two of you can discuss what she has written.

In the end her and the little girl will become friends and your daughter will learn to undersand and have compassion for all of those around her and will be one of the few children throughout her school years that will be the voice for those like the sick little girl.

2008-12-22 15:01:21 by Danny