Eyewear should provide 100% protection

All types of eyewear, including sunglasses and prescription spectacles, should provide 100% UV protection.

"If your child does need everyday corrective spectacles, Transitions adaptive lenses, which automatically adapt from clear indoors to dark outdoors when exposed to UV light, are the ideal option. Transitions adaptive lenses automatically provide 100 percent protection against harmful UVA and UVB rays. "Transitions adaptive lenses can also help boost a child's willingness to wear glasses," adds Botha.

Vision plays a key role in a child’s early functional, educational and social development and approximately 80% of learning in a child’s first 12 years comes from the eyes3. Changes in children’s vision can occur without parents noticing them.

This is why it is recommended children undergo regular eye exams as they grow and as their eyes continue to change and adapt.

Furthermore, conditions such as myopia, hypermetropia and astigmatism, all of which can have an impact on a child's ability to learn and perform in the classroom, are easily detected by means of an eye exam.