It's your fault that my child broke her glasses!

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Basically yeah, parent just started to yell at me on the phone because LD broke her glasses and it's her third pair. Mother was ranting that she wants to talk to the student who broke them (She broke them herself) and wants them to pay for it.

I'm like, "I'm not the one in charge of this issue, but I suggest you talk to her teacher about situation."

It's not my fault your kid decided to take off her glasses when she knows not to take them off and sat on them on accident.

Specializes in Pediatrics Retired.
Why is the kid taking off glasses to begin with? I absolutely hate glasses because I'm in that "my arms aren't long enough category" and looking from a book to the board makes me sick with glasses on. I can't handle them on my nose either ... so my doc put me in trifocal contacts. I realize contacts aren't the best option for little peeps but is something wrong with her prescription for her to choose to not be able to see rather than to keep them on and be able to see? It seems to me that maybe she either 1) doesn't need them or 2) her prescription maybe isn't quite right. Whats the real story behind why she doesn't want them on her face??

I tried those trifocals one time. It was like having some visual hallucinogenic experience. Bud Light didn't even help!

Specializes in Pediatrics Retired.
Yes they were! No more '4 eyes'. :geek::coollook::angrybird5::woot::sarcastic:

I remember! But, alas, I've made the circuit and back to 4 eyes...

Specializes in Cardiology, School Nursing, General.
^^ I can't speak to why the kid is taking the glasses off, but I can offer up my experience as a silly adolescent... while I never broke my glasses, I took them off frequently and lost them, bent the frame a few times. It was hard for me to accept that I needed to wear glasses all the time and I resented it. I was never teased or anything, just hated the fact that I had vision problems... Took me about a year to wear them consistently all the time. Contacts were so freeing when I was teenager

I think it's that, because she has told me she can't see anything without them, but she takes them off! I told her to keep them on her face and that's it. Her mother was PISSED, and it's like, yeah... keep them on your face.

Keep them on your face? Where else? :bugeyes:

Specializes in Cardiology, School Nursing, General.
Keep them on your face? Where else? :bugeyes:

Their butt it seems in this case.

Specializes in School Nurse, past Med Surge.
Keep them on your face? Where else? :bugeyes:

My eye doc told my son, "On your face or in the case!"

Just this year a kid came in from recess, broke the plastic part of the frame that holds the lens in place. I superglued the frame back together, returned the glasses to the kid and all and all, I was pretty pleased with my repair job.

I got a call from his mom the next day, ripping me a new one...she said my repair "voided" the warranty they had for his glasses and now they were going to have to pay for new frames instead of having them replaced under warranty. Uh, sorry??:whistling:

Parents should have made it crystal clear to all staff, verbally and in writing, about the warranty.

That's the thanks you get for trying to help.

Anyway, maybe Lions, Kiwanis, County clinic, other charity could assist parents.

Keep them on your face? Where else? :bugeyes:

I wonder if they are uncomfortable.

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