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Thread: Trying to help my daughter
Post: Re: Trying to help my daughter

Hello, I have realized how much strain my daughter has in her eyes (and obviously her heart) from watching her. No wonder her vision is where it is. It als explains why so many children in orphanages ...

kristen

Bates Method

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05-21-2008, 07:08 AM

Thread: Improved Experience with Memory of Swinging Black Period
Post: Re: Improved Experience with Memory of Swinging Bl...

This is very helpful to me. I somehow missed the swinging of moving of the black period during the remembering.

kristen

Bates Method

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05-20-2008, 03:40 PM

Thread: "Remembering a period"
Post: Re: "Remembering a period"

Thanks for all the great input! We will keep working on these exercises.

kristen

Bates Method

6,346

04-01-2008, 07:37 AM

Thread: "Remembering a period"
Post: "Remembering a period"

I just read Bates book and am trying to do the "remembering a period" he talks about. Is it really just closing my eyes and imagining a black period or black dot? Then opening my eyes and imagining I ...

kristen

Bates Method

6,346

03-28-2008, 01:54 PM

Thread: Trying to help my daughter
Post: Re: Trying to help my daughter

I have 20/15 and sometimes 20/10 so she isn't picking it up from me or my husband who is 20/20. It may seem "ridiculously little".... but to get a kid to sit and do palming a few times a day and sunni...

kristen

Bates Method

16,900

03-27-2008, 04:51 PM

Thread: Trying to help my daughter
Post: Re: Trying to help my daughter

sorrisblue, great ideas! Thanks so much. Funny you mentioned softball....she actually just started playing and is the only kid who can hit the ball which surprised me with her vision. But she also lo...

kristen

Bates Method

16,900

03-27-2008, 06:31 AM

Thread: Trying to help my daughter
Post: Re: Trying to help my daughter

I purposefully didn't tell her it got worse. And I tried hard not to show on my face that it had gotten worse so I don't think she noticed. She does enjoy the Snellen for some reason and asks to do t...

kristen

Bates Method

16,900

03-26-2008, 07:20 PM

Thread: helpful video on the long swing
Post: Re: helpful video on the long swing

I saw her video before finding this board and was confused because her eyes jer so much which my daughter with 20/100 or worse vision also do. My husband watched my eyes (20/15 or beter) while swingin...

kristen

Bates Method

25,254

03-25-2008, 07:23 PM

Thread: Trying to help my daughter
Post: Re: Trying to help my daughter

Just used the online test to see if any progress has been made since it has been almost 2 weeks. Worse than before, both eyes separately couldn't do any letters at 20/100. Both eyes together could do...

kristen

Bates Method

16,900

03-25-2008, 07:20 PM

Thread: Trying to help my daughter
Post: Re: Trying to help my daughter

Over the weekend I read Help Yourself to Better Sight by by Margaret D. Corbett since I heard she explains the Bates Method well. Her exercises for kids are very helpful so we have been doing those fo...

kristen

Bates Method

16,900

03-18-2008, 04:13 PM

Thread: Trying to help my daughter
Post: Re: Trying to help my daughter

Thanks for the feedback! I used the test you recommended and the results were: At 20 feet away she got 0% of the 20/100 with her right eye. She got 100% of the 20/200 with her right eye. At 20 feet a...

kristen

Bates Method

16,900

03-13-2008, 06:37 PM

Thread: Trying to help my daughter
Post: Trying to help my daughter

I was exctied to discover the Bates Method because I just knew deep down inside that glasses weren't the answer to my daughters vision problems. My husband and I don't wear glasses but in the last ye...

kristen

Bates Method

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03-12-2008, 02:16 PM

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