Sports and glasses (bifocals)

[squimp]

Anyone have a child in glasses who plays sports? Do you get some kind of sports glasses or just use their regular glasses? I'm thinking about basketball and soccer specifically.

Also, any special concerns for kids with bifocals? DD wears bifocals and seems to have trouble with dribbling. It may just be a new skill, but I think part of it is that she has trouble shifting focus, and I wonder if a lens with just the top script would work better for her. She struggles with looking down at stairs, and so I just wonder if the single focus lenses would be better for sports (like her swim goggles).

TIA!

[CarrieMF]

Anyone have a child in glasses who plays sports? Do you get some kind of sports glasses or just use their regular glasses? I'm thinking about basketball and soccer specifically.

I have 1 child who wear glasses & play(s) sports, I myself have worn glasses since I was 7 & played multiple sports.

We have not gotten her special sports glasses, yet.

She played basketball from ages 5-9. It wasn't real games until her last year & even then her glasses never got hit. I was her coach though & mine got bent out of shape a few times.lol The ball likes my head, what can I say.

She is in Judo now & can see well enough without her glasses that she just takes them off. I give her another 1-2 years where she'll be able to do that & then she'll be getting the bendy glasses like DH has.

Growing up I never had sports glasses until I was 14(and the ones I did eventually get were NOT like Dh's where you can literally bend them around & they snap back).

I broke a few pairs during soccer in the winter(-4F/-20C) temps. I played baseball, that was not a problem. From grades 7-12 I played basketball, but for 4 of those years I had the sports glasses. Without the I would have broken a few pairs, I was quite agressive & at 5ft 4 short for basketball standards.

If a different lens would work better for playing sports then I'd try going that route. The thing with kids though is sports glasses are not cheap & they will need to be replaced more often due to growing. So it may be cheaper in the end to just replace regular glasses with the single focus lens. Depending on the issues with her eyes, if she can see well enough without them for sports even better.

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Originally Posted by CarrieMF

I have 1 child who wear glasses & play(s) sports, I myself have worn glasses since I was 7 & played multiple sports.

We have not gotten her special sports glasses, yet.

She played basketball from ages 5-9. It wasn't real games until her last year & even then her glasses never got hit. I was her coach though & mine got bent out of shape a few times.lol The ball likes my head, what can I say.

She is in Judo now & can see well enough without her glasses that she just takes them off. I give her another 1-2 years where she'll be able to do that & then she'll be getting the bendy glasses like DH has.

Growing up I never had sports glasses until I was 14(and the ones I did eventually get were NOT like Dh's where you can literally bend them around & they snap back).

I broke a few pairs during soccer in the winter(-4F/-20C) temps. I played baseball, that was not a problem. From grades 7-12 I played basketball, but for 4 of those years I had the sports glasses. Without the I would have broken a few pairs, I was quite agressive & at 5ft 4 short for basketball standards.

If a different lens would work better for playing sports then I'd try going that route. The thing with kids though is sports glasses are not cheap & they will need to be replaced more often due to growing. So it may be cheaper in the end to just replace regular glasses with the single focus lens. Depending on the issues with her eyes, if she can see well enough without them for sports even better.

Thanks, that's helpful. Her vision is very poor, she cannot go without them for any task. But I like the idea of the single focus lens. She is athletic and fast, and I want to be able to help her play if she wants.

[flapjack]

What we do is replace the lens in the previous pair with a tinted lens for sunglasses- theoretically, there's no reason why you can't replace the lenses with a single focus lens for sports use.