How to spoil the sight

The problem of vision in modern conditions directly rests on the problems of school education. Since tens of generations of people as a child have already been forced into school, and so, apparently, it will continue in the future, it becomes clear that schools, crippling the child's psyche and cultivating nervous tension in children, are the hotbed of that mental microbe that spoilssight of mankind. Let us dwell on this topic in some detail, as it deserves.

In the kindergarten and in the first grade of the school the child comes with a radiant face and bright eyes. But in the second or third grade, he begins to languish with lessons and time seems to him endlessly stretching, and after the fourth or fifth grade, the ophthalmologist is already trying to put on his glasses and with all kinds of intimidation he convinces his parents to agree with him. And grief then the sight of their child, if they give themselves to be persuaded. So what happened to the child's eyes since he went to school?

Before school, a child could have an acute vision, and could not have it, and it was not important to him at all. Ask him somebody: "Can you see a kite?" - he could look up and say "yes" or "no".Whatever the result, he did not care: it was so irrelevant for his entertainment. But what was not important in the game became important in the school. And the child felt pressure on himself, compelling him to study well. So he began to look very hard at the board. And coercion already in itself causes eye strain. If, on the other hand, the board is in such a place that it gives glare when looking at it from the place where the child is sitting, and the unfamiliar inscriptions on the board seem to be covered with haze( traces of chalk from previous records), the child naturally has problems withsight. Since the words on the board are very important to him, he starts, for example, mowing, straining his eyes in such a way so that it is supposedly better to see.

With this, the more effort he makes, the worse he sees. No wonder that an inexperienced child falls into this trap, because much older adults do not get out of it! In the end, he begins to exert even more effort, and the matter ends in the fact that he becomes a "buffoon".

Add to this the fact that the child for hours every day is locked in four walls under the supervision of teachers who are often nervous and irritable. In this situation, the child is forced to engage in, while he is forced to sit in the same position all the time, without being distracted or talking. Do not forget that the nervous tension, which is manifested by poor vision, can cause a similar state in others. This is particularly true for children involved with a teacher wearing glasses.

It's not uncommon for the subjects that he needs to study to be presented are very uninteresting. In general, I must say that the whole process of teaching in a school or institute is built in such a way that a child and a young man are forced to constantly think more about getting good marks, rather than about acquiring knowledge for oneself. How many psychological factors spoil the eyesight! And the surprise is not that the child's vision deteriorates, but the fact that he does not get blind and dumb at all.

Some children endure these unnatural conditions better than others, but many can not resist the tension, and this is natural. Thus, schools become hotbeds not only of myopia and all other refractive anomalies, but also strabismus. There is no doubt, however, that most children, when they are just beginning to go to school, are free from these types of visual impairment and that both the frequency and extent of these disorders invariably increase as the educational process continues. So, after the fifth-sixth grade, the percentage of children wearing glasses increases significantly. In high school, most students are wearing glasses, and at the institute their wearing becomes almost the rule.

At the same time, the public attitude to this problem is terribly frightening. It is believed that if a child wears glasses, then it means "smart".Wearing glasses becomes prestigious! Parents and teachers are proud to demonstrate photos from which young maidens are looking. And such adults are not able to understand that a child with glasses is a trouble, an anomaly, that for a person with healthy taste and common sense these images produce the same impression as if the children depicted there were armless and legless and flaunted their crutchesand prostheses. A child who wears glasses is a reproach to the ignorance and rudeness of adults.

Thus, the effort of looking at the school arises from the compulsory nature of the training, burdened by mental stress, and a close look - because of the stress necessary for seeing the inscriptions on the board. Many adults say that their stress first appeared in school because of the blackboard. Nevertheless, these boards all continue to be considered an indispensable element of the school educational process. At one time they tried to facilitate this process, using light green boards and yellow chalk. This, however, worsens the contrast compared to what white chalk gives against a black background, and leads to even greater eye strain, as their work, as we said, is based on contrast.

Once again we recall a very important principle: the person will not be able to see anything with perfect eyesight unless he has seen this object before. When the eye looks at an unfamiliar object, it always strains more or less to see it. In this case, refractive anomalies always arise. When a child looks at unfamiliar inscriptions or geometric figures on a board, deleted geographic maps, charts or drawings, a retinoscope always shows that he becomes a myopic, although his vision under other circumstances can be absolutely normal. The same thing happens in adults when looking at a remote unfamiliar object. When the eye looks at a familiar object, the effect is completely different. It is possible not only to examine it without stress, but in the subsequent it reduces the effort applied when looking at unfamiliar objects. The last remark is extremely important, because it is the key to the whole process of vision restoration.

So, what can parents do to protect the sight of their children studying at school? Practically the only thing that can be done in this situation is to teach the children to relax their eyes and support this relaxation even under the pressure of mental stress. It is not easy to achieve this, but it is possible, and the results are quite worthwhile in order to make the necessary steps in this direction. Parents should, after school, give children relaxation lessons in order to compensate for the daily stress that their children are exposed to. This will remain the responsibility of parents until the time when children begin to teach relaxation techniques right at school.