Myopia Prevention - Take more active interest personnally

There is an active discussion on THE STRAITS TIMES currently the use (or rather the non-use) of safety belt on school buses.

It is observed with unease horror that most Singaporeans do not belt up the kids when their cars are moving (Singapore laws requires children up to age of 8 to be belted when the car is moving). This is despite the fact that an unbelted toddler will plunge forward dangerously like a projectile in an emergency situation involving vehicles of just 60km/hr!

The reasons often sighted was the refusal of the children to be belted; non-convinced parents/care-takers on the safety necessity; inadequate space in the car for child-seat and so on. Then someone exclaimed:”…the irony is that it’s not required for children in school bus to be belted”; and SUDDENLY the discussion moves towards the responsibility of school buses and safety belts.

Why has the discussion moved towards the responsibility of school buses when it started off from “parents are even not responsible for their OWN children’s safety?. If parents themselves are not able to belt up their children, how can the school bus driver and his assistant requires the whole bus load of children to be seated and belted before the bus moves? The school bus will probably not be able to leave the school compound at all.

We are not discussing whether school buses should insist that their passengers belt-up, but that we as parents do have to take on more responsibilities. Without a supportive parent, there is a limit to what the school, or even the government can do. Just in our own experience in eyecare management, it’s quite common for parents to ask why, if excessive computer usage spoils the eyesight and may cause myopia, their school, or the Government encourages computer usage. Or that since EyeRelax helps to relax the eyes and help maintain the healthy function of their eyes, they look forward to their schools make EyeRelax available to the students; and they prefer to give handheld games to their children!

Now, that’s the real irony.