TEACHING NOTES FOR PARENTS

1. The child's eyes should be thoroughly sunned and palmed before any game begins and also midway, if he seems to tire.
2. 3- If the child does not identify the first two or three letters, the distance is too great as a beginning.
3. If the first five or six letters come easily and then mistakes begin, the eyes are tired. Make the child sun and palm again. If no sun is available, a warm light will do.
4. Do not 'keep the child at the game too long. A ten-minute period is good at first, with frequent short rests.
5. Distance may be stretched as the child's vision improves.
6. If one lesson is in sunshine and the next on a dark day in artificial light, do not attempt to stretch the distance under the less favourable conditions since the letters will be twice as difficult for the child to see.
7. Do not allow the child to stare at the letter or "try to make it out". That will defeat vision. He must catch it "on the wing", so to speak, as he swings from margin to margin of the card. If you notice him "fixing" on the letter or staring at the card, take it away immediately and ask him to close his eyes and count six swings before looking again.
8. Be sure that he breathes regularly and rhythum. Breath-holding accompanies eyestrain
9. If one eye is much stronger than the other, it I would be covered with a domed patch part of, the in order to let the weaker eye play the game alone this, the distance should be much shorter at the than with the two eyes.
10. Teachers should hold the card at an angle that does not throw a glare into the child's eyes.

Watch little children for bad habits of straining, sing the head to one side, staring, failure to blink, holding breath while trying to concentrate, and manifestations of tension. And watch your own its, as children are quick to imitate and eyestrain is unicable.

Normal children are inveterate readers. If parents only understood that when a child has a distaste e reading it is usually due to eye discomfort! This comfort probably arises out of difficulty of focusing the near point, which can be overcome by teaching child to relax tense nerves. Reading can thus some a pleasure instead of an ordeal. The eye is contrary. Whatever we do consciously with the eye just the opposite reaction. Therefore, whatever!, by to do with the eye is wrong. We must teach the do not to try but to let. The common belief is that children become near-sighted because of too much. Myopia is not due to use of the eyes at the point but to a strain to see distant objects. Bear in mind the law: "If the eyes rest before are weary, they will never become exhausted."

FOR THE EYES OF SCHOOL CHILDREN
Many young school children have normal vision; they are able to see the blackboard without difficulty. Most primary teachers, however, will testify that as the first year rolls on, more and more children fail to see the blackboard and must have glasses prescribed. This failure of vision is not alone due to the glare on the blackboard from an angle of unfavourable lighting. It has been proved that looking at unfamiliar - things new words or sentences, strange figures or unfamiliar maps tends to make eyestrain. This strain can be counteracted, it has been demonstrated, by letting the children read daily, at a distance, some familiar things. That ease with which the eyes take in familiar words, numbers or objects, that ease of looking which means lack of strain can be carried over to unfamiliar things and the normal vision preserved or subnormal vision built up.