Buy a Snickers candy bar for 50 cents. DO NOT SHOW YOUR CHILD WHAT IT IS. Now, when your child is out of the room, place the Snickers bar on a table, about 20 feet or more of where your child will enter the room. Have the child enter. Point to the table and say, “What’s that?” If the child says, “Can I have it?” your child’s vision is JUST FINE.

That worked for me for years.

I recently saw some fancy gadget online for testing kids’ eyes, and it struck me as a little extravagant. Sure, there are times when fancy gadgets are needed. But then again, there are time when they are definitely not needed. Why spend more than you have to?

My daughter has incredible vision– 20/15, actually. Then this year and last year, she was given 20/20 vision by the eye doctor. And he recommended GLASSES! For all my kids, whether they needed them or not, the eye doctors always recommended glasses. They’d even try to wheedle my kids into getting prescription sunglasses, just as long as they have SOME kind of prescription to them! Holy cow, if the kid’s vision is fine, why fool with it? Glasses can make your eyes lazy. Plus, the eye glasses is where the money is made, not with the exams. :-p I never liked doctors and some of them sure don’t inspire me much, either.

P.S. Hm, I think eye doctors should be required by the FTC to inform me of when their recommendations come as “sponsored posts”! How about you?!