My 10-year-old son Jack has been wearing prescription eyeglasses since he was 5, and so I have been bringing him and his younger sister Juno to an eye doctor annually.
Having had a year of online distance learning (ODL) and yet another year of ODL to go means more screen exposure for the kids, so I set an appointment with the only pediatric ophthalmologist in our area.
Last year, I took them just before the lockdown, so it was pretty much the same as always. But in the “new normal,” arranging an appointment is not enough.
The kids’ eyes get scanned by a machine, then the doctor has them dictate what they see projected on a screen. When Juno was still too young to r…
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