Something I've been torn about for quite a while... how young is too young for contacts? An incident yesterday actually caused me to write this and get everyone's opinions on the matter. We had a girl in, 12 years old, looked like she was about 10. I'm watching her going through her training, with her mother and sister, who both wear contacts as well, and can't help but think... geeze, she's awful young to be wearing those. We all know the dangers involved with improper cleaning of contacts... where do you draw the line though? This girl could have been the cleanest little girl in the world... but how do you know? Most kids I know are little dirt-bags. You can't trust what the parents say either. Especially in this case, the mother, being a wearer herself, wants her daughter to have them.
Glasses are becoming less and less of a stigma every day. It's almost gotten to the point where it's cool to wear glasses. So why the push to get kids into contacts? The most common answer that I get to this is sports. That's fair enough... to a point. If you're playing a sport, like hockey, where your glasses will fog up in the helmet, then I definatly understand that. Things like Soccer though? I really don't understand. If you're worried about breaking the glasses, get a second pair for when you play! It'd darned well close to the same price, or even cheaper depending on how often the contacts are used.
I guess this was a bit of a rant, as well as a question, so I'll leave this out there for you guys. What are your opinions on kids with contacts?
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