Mark S. Agnew, the founder and CEO of leading online eyewear retailer Eyeglasses.com, is offering guidance to parents looking for the best deals on quality children’s glasses.
“Finding glasses is a fairly straightforward experience for adults, but can pose a challenge for children who may feel insecure about wearing them - especially for the first time,” says Agnew. “Luckily there are many different styles and playful shapes to choose from that will help them feel more confident.”
During the first few years of visual development, children may need some help in improving poor eyesight - whether it’s myopia (near-sightedness), hyperopia (far-sightedness), astigmatism, strabismus (crossed or misaligned eyes) or amblyopia (a ‘lazy eye’).
Most kids’ glasses generally come equipped with polycarbonate lenses that don’t break into harmful slivers, with UV protection and scratch-resistant lens coating for added all-around safety during everyday wear.
Other helpful methods of getting children accustomed to the idea of wearing glasses is by making sure that the frame fit is comfortable and doesn’t feel like an awkward, uncomfortable weight on their face.
“Everyone who has never worn glasses before has a ‘learning curve’ to deal with, which takes a couple of weeks,” adds Agnew. “Silicone nose pads, ear grips and spring hinges help with the comfort level, and letting kids choose their own frames makes them more excited about wearing them.
“It’s also important to keep a positive attitude about wearing glasses, because we can feel negative about the experience - as if there’s a ‘problem’ and you’re saddled with having to put them on your face. Treat the need for glasses as an exciting new adventure and fashion statement that will enhance - not hinder - their lives and they will embrace them as well!”
Eyeglasses.com boasts a colorful array of children’s glasses from Aspex, Body Glove, Champion, Dora the Explorer, Eight to Eighty, GX by Gwen Stefani, Guess, Hello Kitty, IZOD, Jessica McClintock, Life is Good, Lucky Brand, Nike, Modz Kids, Oakley, Dilli Dalli and many more.
For more information, visit www.Eyeglasses.com.
ABOUT EYEGLASSES.COM:
Mark S. Agnew is the CEO and founder of Eyeglasses.com, a leader in the online consumer eyewear business. Since 1999, Agnew pioneered online retailing by being the first eyewear company with a virtual try-on application, earning two patents which were later sold to Luxottica Corporation.
Agnew has long been a consumer advocate, leaving a successful Wall Street career to develop Eyeglasses.com, which sells high-quality eyewear to customers for half of the price normally charged by optical stores. As an expert in the eyewear industry, he is the author of the Eyeglasses Buying Guide: How to Pay Less and Get More, which offers advice and information to all eyeglass consumers, offline and online.
Founded on the principal of helping others, Eyeglasses.com has continued to evolve its charity program and in 2019 launched PiWear to literally make blind people see again. For every pair of PiWear sold, Eyeglasses.com funds a cataract surgery in India. This effort has earned Agnew wide-ranging media coverage in the press.
Prior to founding Eyeglasses.com, Agnew was Director of Fixed Income Research and Vice President at Lehman Brothers, and before that as Managing Director at Bear Stearns. Agnew started his Wall Street career at Drexel Burnham Lambert, but denies all responsibility for the demise of those three companies. Institutional Investor Magazine recognized Agnew as a top analyst for his investment research, which numbered in the thousands of pages during his ten years on Wall Street.
Agnew earned his MBA at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and a BA in Art History from Vassar College. He is an active Rotarian, was a board member of the Westport-Weston Chamber of Commerce and is active in local charities.
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