Singapore has one of the highest childhood myopia rates in the world. More worryingly, Singapore is actually top in the world for having the highest prevalence of childhood myopia in seven to nine year olds! This is somewhat attributed to our digital lifestyle habits. Myopia can be hereditary and may be passed on when these kids themselves become parents themselves one day. Education therefore is key. However, this role cannot only be performed by school teachers or by the occasional visits from the Health Promotion Board. Parents, grandparents and even children need to be constantly reminded and empowered to take better care of their eyes.
This is where Project Junior by Nanyang Optical comes in.
Trusted Name for Generations
Nanyang Optical is a household name in Singapore for quality optical services and products who is also Singapore’s first eco-friendly eyewear store. It is one of the approved institute to participate in the Baby Bonus Scheme (so we can actually pay for its products using our kids’ Baby Bonus account). As a ‘local brand’, Nanyang Optical fully understand Singaporeans’ eye care needs.
Project Junior
Project Junior is a program where children and parents are empowered to take the education of good eyesight habits into their own hands and to conduct regular monitoring of good habits in order to prevent or stem the worsening of myopia in their children. Project Junior comprises of the following:
1. A colourful and child-friendly brochure with facts on how to take better care of our eyesight presented in simple, understandable manner, which are easy to read even for young school going kids.
2. The Project Junior brochure opens up to a Visual Acuity Chart that is approximated to scale providing guidelines to be followed at home.
3. A Summary Sheet of the eye-test results to be brought home and kept as a record. The Summary Sheet is to be filled in to monitor the development of the child’s eyesight.
4. A full range of award-winning Eyelet Junior spectacles for children.
More than just a Program
A program is only as good as the people who run it.
The team at the United Square branch were friendly, warm and personable during our visits. They were detailed in explaining the content of the Project Junior brochure and did a thorough Eye Vision Test on our daughter before recommending us the appropriate next step of action. As expected, our daughter’s myopia has worsened (again!) by 45 degrees in a short span of 6 months since her last eye-check. We were then shown a range of Eyelet Junior spectacles which will be paired with MyoVision™ lenses from ZEISS Singapore to give her clearer vision and reduce myopia progression.
During the collection of her new spectacles, the optometrist displayed high level of professionalism as she patiently helped my daughter fit her glasses as well as customised the spectacle features to her liking. More importantly, she was very knowledgeable and able to answer the queries of this set of concerned parents.
Award-winning Eyelet Junior Eyewear
Fronting the Project Junior program isNanyang Optical ’s own in-house brand of high quality spectacles for children. The Eyelet Junior range of children spectacles have innovative features that make them attractive and durable.
Some outstanding features of the Eyelet Eyewear include:
- Eco-friendly (with no soldering involved) and the temples are made of recycled polymer
- World’s first soft-lock system: using nylon string to lock the lenses within the rims of the frame
- Made in Japan: sturdy and durable, balances well on the face unlike most thin rimless frame
- Flexible and ‘Expandable’ frames: able to withstand the ‘rough’ use and growing facial frame of kids
- Made of a single frame (i.e. without any hinges): reduces the likelihood of the frame from breaking
- Customisable: The sides of the spectacle frames can be accessorised according to the preference of our kids. Simply detach and replace the coloured borders with a design that the kids prefer. This way your child’s spectacles can be easily differentiated from their siblings’ or friends’, reducing the risk of misplacing the spectacles. Our daughter was very intrigued by this and can’t wait to try it.
- Won many international design awards
Our daughter has been proudly wearing her Eyelet Junior specs to school since the new term and she’s full of praises for it. She feels it’s light, very comfortable and she’s been receiving compliments from her friends on how ‘trendy’ she looks. While we are happy to hear she’s confident of her looks, we take the opportunity to remind her to be more mindful of her daily reading habits to prevent her myopia from worsening at a rapid rate.
Too often than not, vision problems are not detected early leading to detrimental consequences especially for young children.Nanyang Optical hopes to partner parents in Project Junior to increase awareness of early and regular eye screening through this initiative.
Check out Nanyang Optical’s website for other holistic products and services for your children’s eye care needs.
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Disclosure: We received a pair of Eyelet Junior spectacles for the purposes of this review. All photos, video and opinions are, as usual, authentically ours.
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Very alarming data about child myopia in Singapore but not shocking since Singapore is so advanced in technology n digital lifestyle!
Love to support local businesses n bonus points is they are eco friendly…
Your daughter chose a nice frame… Suits her so well!
Xoxo,
Jamie chaw
(http://karmie080808.blogspot.sg)!
Two of our kids are on eyelet junior too, love the durable and “colouful” frames, which really fit the kids’ active lifestyles 🙂
cheers, Andy
(SengkangBabies.com)
thankfully Lil Pumpkin doesn’t need specs.. yet? But I’ve shopped at Nanyang before and they do have a good range for adults, and now I know for kids too!!
Ai @ Sakura Haruka
My girl had astigmatism. Hope to win this as I like the customisable sides of the spectacles frame and also the flexible and expandable frame. As my girl is still young and sometimes the way she handle the glasses is not so gentle or even sometimes the younger one like to pull her sister’s glasses off. So the flexible and expandable frame will be good.
my son, El, is almost 7, but as an avid reader i think his eyesight may be less than perfect now. Was just going to bring him to the optician today. If he does need specs, this pair seems sturdy and comfortable enough for him to want to wear it!
Kids r wearing specs at a earloer age these days. A good pair and a good optician is very important
My P3 son would love to have a new specs on this coming year.
My child is wearing eyelet junior for a year and has not given her problem. Would love to get her a new frame for coming year.
Myopia is a real issue. My kids have it too. Nanyang is a name I truly trust too.
My elder son have been wearing specs since he was 5 year old.. and this year he is 9 year. Beside taking care of his eyes very carefully, such as no lying down to read books, looking at green after few hours of tv watching, a pair of good specs does help too. Hope to win this pair of specs to help him in slowing down his myopia power to increase yearly.
My daughter had been wearingvher existing specs for almost a year and now she has been advise to get a new specs with slightly increase degree. This has been my worry about the degree increasing. Really wish to win a Eyelet Junior Specs with Zeiss MyoVision lens to reduce her myopia.
I was so upset with myself when my second Son was diagnosed for myopia. Luckily his degrees is not that high and I hope to keep it at this degree.
He’s also an active boy who loves running. With this frame, I’m sure he will enjoy his sports without any inconvenience.
Hope to win this for elder gal who had started to wear glasses since she was 6 years old. She just went for her eyes op in the June school holidays and She needs to change another new glasses after her op, which degree is over 600. Hope to win ZEISS MyoVision Lenses will help her to slow down her degrees progression.
Love nanyang optical junior specs.
Wish to try the eyelet specs to control my kid’s myopia!
Jessie Lee
[email protected]
My girl is an avid reader, she reads a lot while I was at work, being a child she has no concept of good reading habits n under poor lighting , she started wearing specs at the end of K1. It is worrisome once myopia kicks in, no amount of monitoring can slow down the increase in degree, as her KKH doctor said her eyes are still developing.
Now that I m a SAHM, I m like a police at home, monitoring her screen time n reading environment.
She is Janelle age 7, R400, L425. She is due for another checkup in Dec. As she needs to change specs every 6 months, I m always budgeting the cost of the new pair below $200, winning this giveaway will definitely be a great treat/gift for her. Thank you.
My 8 year old need a new pair desperately as his myopia has gone up and i hope to control it with myovision
My 8 year old boy Justin has a power of 200 and now its higher as he cant see well using his current pair.hope to be able to change soon
Hope to win for my nephew who has power of 300 in each eye and the new pair of spectacles would control his myopia.
My Son. Benedict. 8 years old. 250 degree.
Hope he will get a pack of junior spec with ZEISS Myvission lenses will control his myopia.
Hopefuly with better quality spec i will not have to replace his spec so often😜
My name: Amanda Soh
Email: [email protected]
Hi, I chanced upon your blog as my daughter now needs glasses and I am not sure where to take her. May I check if the glasses are affordable?If I may ask, what is the price range of their glasses?
Hi Ivy
thanks for dropping by. You can bring your daughter to Nanyang Optical or any optical shop in your neighbourhood for a thorough eye check first. The price range of the glasses will depend on the lens you prefer and the myopia degree. It usually starts from SGD100 and up.