The 2013 Great Glasses Play Day will be August 4, 2013 and we’d love your help in making it a success! Here’s some ways you can help: Sign up to help plan an event near you! The get togethers are planned locally by parents. You choose the location and time (and day, if Aug. 4 doesn’t … Continue reading »
Here comes the sun, and the Great Glasses Play Day is coming soon, too! We’ve been humming George Harrison’s tune around here a lot lately (now that the ice has finally melted) and it’s time to start spreading the word about our great play day and how great glasses can be! The August 4th event celebrating kids who wear glasses … Continue reading »
MINNEAPOLIS, MN – April 1, 2013. Researchers at Little Four Eyes have recently demonstrated that there exists a strong link between children who wear glasses and cuteness. The study is the first of its kind to look for links between kids in glasses and their levels of cute. Cuteness experts analyzed the 167 photos in … Continue reading »
Fred Rogers would have celebrated his 85th birthday this week. Like the Great Glasses Play Day, Fred celebrated early childhood creativity, self-expression and play. Another important value of his was recognizing that we all have feelings and “when feelings are mentionable they are manageable.” Ann Z wrote the following post this week on her blog … Continue reading »
Want to have a fun and rewarding experience this weekend? Host a mini-Great Glasses Play Day in honor of the 5th Anniversary of Little Four Eyes! If you haven’t heard of Little Four Eyes, it is a wonderful online resource and support community for families with young children in glasses. Ann Zawistoski, co-founder of the Great … Continue reading »
I just came across this lovely, and heartbreaking, post from Almost All the Truth, “A Kinder New Year in Glasses.” She talks about how important it is for all people to be kind to each other and especially not to call names. It got me thinking about the name calling that so often comes from … Continue reading »
Today is World Sight Day, a day devoted to raising awareness of blindness and visual impairment as public health issues. The numbers are striking and sad: an estimated 1.4 million children are needlessly blind causes of childhood blindness include glaucoma, cataracts, retinopathy of prematurity, corneal scarring, and refractive errors. in developing countries, 60% of blind … Continue reading »
Thank you again to everyone that helped us celebrate the very first Great Glasses Play Day! We’ve set the date for the second annual event for August 4, 2013. We hope you’ll join us!
One of the ways to celebrate the Great Glasses Play Day was by writing a post on your own blog about your child in glasses. I’ve gathered up the posts here for you to enjoy. If you write a blog post about the Great Glasses Play Day, please comment here or on our Happy Great … Continue reading »
The first annual, August 5 Great Glasses Play Day was a success! We had a great time at the Minneapolis event. My daughter and her new found friends felt like the special guests at a party. A parent who attended the Portland, OR event shared that their son was acting like the birthday boy at … Continue reading »
