Anyone have a child that plays soccer with bifocal glasses?

Our 3 year old daughter just started soccer this season and she wears bifocal glasses with a prism to help straigten one lazy eye. When she dribbles she looks straight down at the ball. Im wondering if the bifocal or prism makes it hard to see the ball so she looks farther down to get past the bifocal part of the lens. She has only played in 4 games and is a monster on the field. Just wondering if anyone else has delt with this or heard of it. Thanks

The prism will actually help her.  Good for you for having a 3 yo wearing them!  My DD is also playing U4 and she is a beast as well.  Good luck with the season   

jimmye4golf wrote:Our 3 year old daughter just started soccer this season and she wears bifocal glasses with a prism to help straigten one lazy eye. When she dribbles she looks straight down at the ball. Im wondering if the bifocal or prism makes it hard to see the ball so she looks farther down to get past the bifocal part of the lens. She has only played in 4 games and is a monster on the field. Just wondering if anyone else has delt with this or heard of it.  Thanks

I don't know about the medical condition with her eye and if it correctable, but I can tell you that 100% of kids her age and up, keep their heads down when dribbling the ball. At those younger ages, it takes an enormous amount of concentration to even focus on dribbling, no matter who the child is. In fact, you will hardly see any kids at ages 5-6yo perceive that they even have any teammates. If a game is 5v5, to them it's like 1v9. No one should worry about this, since it means the confidence is building within the child and encouraging growing footskills that will help later down the road.

You have plenty of time to correct the medical issue, if possible, and don't worry at all about her soccer development right now. Just let her play around and have fun. There are plenty of girls who are very skilled who wear glasses/contacts who have no issues on the pitch.

Play lots of other sports right now and just let her be a child.

Oh I agree with glasses and contacts not hurting anything. Ive worn glasses/contacts since the 2nd grade and have played football, soccer, golf, baseball and tennis with no problem. Well no vision problem. I was curious about the bifocal part at the bottom of the lens. They are designed to see up close like for reading. My mother wears bifocals and I gave her a soccer ball and told her to look down at it and she said it was extremly blurry. ( just did this about 10 mins ago). Our 5 year old has played since she was 3 also and has never looked down like our 3 year old does. Actually Ive never seen anyone play soccer look down like she does. She has been wearing glasses for almost a year and a half and her eye has improved tremendously.

jimmye4golf wrote: Our 5 year old has played since she was 3 also and has never looked down like our 3 year old does. Actually Ive never seen anyone play soccer look down like she does. She has been wearing glasses for almost a year and a half and her eye has improved tremendously.

No disrespect, but how long have you coached rec/academy/select? It is hard enough to get select girls to keep their heads up with the ball at their feet, let alone 3-5yos.

Coach&Ref wrote:

jimmye4golf wrote: Our 5 year old has played since she was 3 also and has never looked down like our 3 year old does. Actually Ive never seen anyone play soccer look down like she does. She has been wearing glasses for almost a year and a half and her eye has improved tremendously.

No disrespect, but how long have you coached rec/academy/select? It is hard enough to get select girls to keep their heads up with the ball at their feet, let alone 3-5yos.

No disrespect, but I took this, "Ive never seen anyone play soccer look down like she does", to mean that he has never seen a player look down in the same manner in which his DD looks down. I don't think he meant that he hasn't seen young players look down at the ball, just that his DD is looking down differently or in a more exaggerated fashion, possibly due to the bifocals. I can understand that a player with bifocals might feel the need to look down even more so than a player with typical vision to see over the top of the prism part of the lens.

fhjmom wrote:

Coach&Ref wrote:

jimmye4golf wrote: Our 5 year old has played since she was 3 also and has never looked down like our 3 year old does. Actually Ive never seen anyone play soccer look down like she does. She has been wearing glasses for almost a year and a half and her eye has improved tremendously.

No disrespect, but how long have you coached rec/academy/select? It is hard enough to get select girls to keep their heads up with the ball at their feet, let alone 3-5yos.

No disrespect, but I took this, "Ive never seen anyone play soccer look down like she does", to mean that he has never seen a player look down in the same manner in which his DD looks down. I don't think he meant that he hasn't seen young players look down at the ball, just that his DD is looking down differently or in a more exaggerated fashion, possibly due to the bifocals. I can understand that a player with bifocals might feel the need to look down even more so than a player with typical vision to see over the top of the prism part of the lens.

Oh OK. I might have just misinterpreted it. Sorry if I did.