June Gets Glasses And Sees Things For The First Time!! 

The individual leaves were my first childhood memory with glasses too! :)

My parents found out when I was already seven because I was so super clumsy and they couldn't find the reason until they got my eyes checked. But I need to add my perscription wasn't this high. (I think like 2-3)

Your comment made me cry.

This was exactly the same with my youngest. We had no idea that she couldn't see, and I cried every time she pointed out little things that we could see but she had never seen before. She was right around 5, too.

My experience was very similar nearly 45 years ago and to this day I still remember the leaves. All the wonderful details in the world I had never seen.

I agree.

As a 72 year old grandmother, I was in tears watching June ‘see’ the world as it should be. She is a creative, confident little girl so you have provided her with all she needed to thrive. Now the glasses will just give her that little bit to add to what was already there. It’s all good.

Beautifully said! 🥰 You’re doing great mom and dad and siblings ❤️

Parents should never feel guilty about not noticing their child's eyesight problems, as you say children are clever and resourceful and can usually hide these things pretty well, sometimes without even knowing. I was 7 years old before my own eyesight problems were spotted - my teacher noticed that I would sometimes (not always) struggle with words when I was reading, and watching me closely as I read a book it was noticed that my eyes kept crossing and uncrossing and going in and out of focus. They told my parents who took me to an optometrist and I had to wear glasses AND an eyepatch for about a year to help me _consciously_ train my eyes to focus at the right distance and in the right directions. (Even today, age nearly 40, I experience crossed eyes whenever I'm really tired - because I am always manually focusing my eyes while I'm awake!) And even before me - my dad was already going to school before his parents noticed that his eyes were similarly wandering back and forth. Unfortunately, unlike me he would often not wear his glasses (taking them off on the way to school, and putting them on just before he got home, so his parents would never know - and nobody at school was aware that he needed glasses). Because he wasn't wearing them consistently, his eye problems continue to get worse and he ended up with permanent double-vision and long-sightedness.

Exactly! You don't know what you don't know when you're 4. She couldn't tell you there was a problem because for her, it was normal! Congratulations, June!

She is❤

Almost? I'm 70 with no kids and I'm balling, in a happy way!

I thought I was the only one. I don't use glasses but this video just does something to me.

Wholesome; that's it. May this little girl live a long, happy, healthy life!

Oh, I get it now.

My heart is totally overwhelmed. I’m so grateful for sharing this beautiful transition with you. Thank you for the adventures

Cool

Lol

Love

I felt that way after cataract surgery.🌞🌼🍁

My oldest daughter said the same thing. She could see the green but not the individual leaves. We home schooled so her books were in front of her and we didn't use a blackboard across the room on the wall so didn't know she couldn't see well.

My mother said the same thing as a child!

Exact same thing happened to me

My grandma says the same thing 😁

Same for me. I asked Mom on the way home if she could see the individual blades of grass as we drive by, and the leaves on the trees, and the pebbles in the sidewalk!

Thanks for sharing this experience with us. My grandchildren and I love watching the Crosby family and have done so for years. We especially love June and her wonderful personality. Taking nothing away from the older ones. It's just that we got to see her since her birth. I'm in my 70's and I still remember getting glasses and being so excited to see myriad individual leaves on the trees. Your videos are always uplifting. God bless you all, Always!

This makes so much sense! Wow!!

Thank you for correcting that. As an eye nurse, it was frustrating.

Wonderful!

The change in magnification is mainly based on the distance from the lens to the eye, so the effect her own eye muscles had on size is far less than the effect her glasses have on it. In other words, things really do look much bigger to her than they do to the average person, though her brain will adjust to this (and probably has by this point since it's been 7 months).* I'm not sure how long this effect lasts, since I generally wear contacts (which have no distance from the eye, and so do not magnify or shrink anything), but her family may have noticed that at least at first, she had a sort of "superhuman" ability to see small things that most people would need a magnifying glass to see! Glasses for myopia are concave and make things look smaller, while glasses for hyperopia are convex (like magnifying glasses), and make things look bigger,. Glasses for astigmatism can make things look wider or narrower (but generally narrower) in whatever axis the person has astigmatism. I have against-the-rule astigmatism, so my glasses--when I wear them--make everything look a bit more narrow than it actually is. *Given enough time, the brain can adjust to correct for some pretty extreme changes in vision, even including glasses that turn everything upside down!

Now I understand why she is saying "everything is bigger now" thank you!

They are so open and honest Beautiful family. x

She looks so happy with her new glasses beautiful family

Me too! Age 8!

The trees were the most amazing to me as well. I was chattering about the leaves all the way home from picking up my first glasses - age 14, I think. I don't even know how my parents figured it out. I think I was complaining that I couldn't see the board in math class.

Same

Jesus loves you!😊❤ All so very much!

SAME

I’m glad she can see better her glasses are adorable on her

This is somewhat like watching people seeing color for the first time. Just like color blind people June got to see a world she didn't know existed either. a world of clarity. If she can see all this stuff now, imagine when she finally gets her +8 glasses. I'm glad that her mom and dad caught this finally because if they hadn't she might have ended up destroying her eye muscles. I don't think June's eyes were tired, I think she was experiencing eye strain. I'm not an optometrist, but I have been wearing glasses since I was around June's age and I'm 70 now, so I've learned at least a little something about eyesight. And that's why I think June is describing eye strain. If you think that your children are rubbing their eyes more than a normal amount, please take your child to an eye doctor.

True , really right S.

She's right, a strong + prescription will have the side effect of making things look a bigger as well as sharper.

My dad told me the same thing about the leaves on the trees when he got his first glasses back in the early 1900s.

@@fayestewart675 same! I got mine in third grade, and was in awe!!

Same here! I came out and said the same thing, they had always been green blobs...

I was in the fifth grade when I got my first pair, and I remember seeing the individual leaves. So happy for sweet June!

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Hi Susan how are you doing

me too. I got glasses when I was 5 years old and that was a special memory with my mom who came to visit me and take me to get my eyes checked. I was raised by my grandma cuz my mom was an alcoholic. but that day she was sober and happy so it was a good memory.

@@StephanieStarfall ❤️that is such a special memory.

Same with me.

Hello Denver how are you doing

That would be interesting--I love my contact lenses, but I didn't start needing any vision correction until my mid-to-late 20s, so I didn't spend a whole childhood getting used to glasses first. I imagine once she's adjusted to glasses, if she ever were to try contacts everything would look really small to her at first!

My experience was nearly identical, including being in first grade when my teacher and parents realized it. And the amazement in the leaves are still my clearest memory now more than 45 years later.

Yes when you can see the individual leaves...what a blessing

I Agree

Hello Dixie how are you doing

Hi Amber how are you doing

Becky .. same here. I was 10 years old .. walked out of the Dr.'s office and was shocked at the leaves on the trees. I mean .. I KNEW that trees had leaves .. duh .. but I had no idea that people could see leaves from a distance!

@@eTraxx exactly! the detail- the crispness.

I got mine in 5 th grade. I saw things that I had never seen before!

Been here my self at about the same age, and I'm 68 now. I probably looked like an idiot back then, walking around with a goofy grin on my face.

Leaves for me too!

All the same. I am amazed and overwhelmed by how similar the stories are and what sticks out for so many of us are the leaves.

So adorable ❤

What a blessing! I was 8 when my parents discovered l couldn't see. With glasses I saw the bark on trees and the veins on the back of leaves! A whole new world will open up for sweet June! What a relatively easy fix for us all! Way to go mom and dad!

Same here!!!

Hello Bridget how are you doing

Dirty glasses are quite annoying, or rain smudges ugh

Dirty glasses are the WORST!

Yeah. I hate having smiggy glasses!

Dirty glasses..just ECK

I know that struggle all too well. When I first started to wear glasses at the age of 12, the most annoying thing I dread is when I get smudges on my lenses, especially after rain and when I'm in dusty environments.

I didn’t realise that vision could improve after wearing glasses for awhile - that’s really neat!

@@user-no2mz9hl4f ya I wore glasses, it was like 8.00 on both eyes, but 4th grade I finally got them off :)

@@SunnyMoonwilluploadin That’s so cool!

@@user-no2mz9hl4f I had +4 when I was three years old. I never bothered to wear the glasses and could already see perfectly when I started school. Hyperopia decreases with time, if you do a lot of near work it can go to 0 or even to -. Now I am have -1 but almost never wear my glasses.

yes, leaves on trees were a big one - they were no longer blobs of green - but trees with branches and leaves!