How to Convince Your Parents to Let You Get Contact Lenses Colorado

Steps

1. Research contact lenses. Find out if they actually suit you. See the related wikiHows below. Ask friends and family who have contacts about them.
2. Discuss the pro's and con's of contacts with your parents if you still want them. This proves that you're willing to keep up with a new responsibility.
3. Explain how contacts can benefit you in your daily life. Glasses are often uncomfortable during sports and maybe your favorite sunglasses brand doesn't come in prescription. Glasses can also hide a pretty face.
4. Ask them why they don't want you to have contacts. Maybe there is a misunderstanding that can be solved easily.
5. Act responsibly--do all your chores, wear your glasses everyday, do your homework-and they will probably see that you're ready for contacts.
6. Bring up the subject at your next appointment with your eye doctor. You can make an excuse to go to the doctor in the first place, such as needing to get your prescription checked. This is an especially important step, as your parents will most likely listen to your optometrist or ophthalmologist if they say you are a good candidate for contacts.
7. Realize that people with certain conditions may be eligible for "medically necessary" contacts, in which case, insurance should cover the cost. This is one of the strongest arguments if it applies to you, because your parents most likely will not want to argue when it comes to your vision being as strong as it can be.
8. Learn how to properly put in contacts and care for contacts at the eye doctor.
9. Be prepared for your parents check that you are wearing your contacts responsibly. Make sure to take out your contacts and clean them every night. Wear them for the prescribed amount of time.
10. Ask if you can have contacts if you pay (at least partly) for them. A year's supply of Acuvue 2 is typically about $120 to $160. Focus monthlies are about $80 to $120 for a year's supply, but they are not for everyone. Contact lens exams are also more than those for glasses only - typically a contact lens exam is about $70 to $100.
11. Consider going behind their back. This is not recommended however. They will probably notice when you stop wearing your glasses. You may be better off to wait until you're 18, get a part-time job, and get them with your own money.

Tips

• Legally, you only need to get ONE parent to consent to the optician for you to have contacts.
• Be patient, especially if you are their first child . . . it may take time for them to consider your request.
• Research is one of the most important parts of convincing your parents. Make sure you know your stuff! Making a "guide" to contacts helps a lot. Print out information from the Internet about contact lenses. Place the guide somewhere where your parents will definitely see it.
• As a last resort consider buying some cool glasses. Now most kids are really into black frame glasses so if your parents say no then get some but make sure you don't look like a grandma/grandpa
• Using examples and compromises may be helpful in swaying your parents. However, if you wish to use them, make sure that they'll help. Some parents may think of this as a desperation strategy.
• Don't throw in the towel and give up if your parents say no initially. Sometimes, parents want to see how serious you are about something before they go to the expense.
• If you are at least 18 years of age (in the USA) you can legally get them on your own without parental consent, provided you have your own money of course. In some states you can be younger. For example, in Connecticut you only have to be 16, as a person is no longer considered a minor after age 16 in that state.

Warnings

• Remember to keep your promises.
• Your parents and doctors may disagree even if you do all the steps.
• Even if your parents let you get them, you may ultimately not be able to wear contact lenses. A very small minority of the population is physically unable to wear them. Your eye doctor will most likely be able to determine this.
• If you go behind your parents' back to try to get contact lenses, you could ruin their trust in you for the future, if they find out. It is also impossible, unless you have your own money anyway.
• Don't use the "everybody else does it" excuse. No parent since the dawn of time has ever bought this, and their response is an easy "If everybody else was jumping off a cliff, would you?". If you use this excuse, you could be waiting until your 18th birthday guaranteed...
• NEVER get upset or whine if they say "no". Accept it and move on, but don't give up completely. Bring it up again at a later time. If you act mature and responsibly afterwards, they might change their mind. And even if they don't, you can always get them when you're 18...

Things You'll Need

• Information on contacts
• Parents

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