I really don’t understand people who # 1 won’t buy glasses for themselves when the clearly need them and #2 when they won’t buy them for their children when they clearly need them.
Especially when the reason they won’t is because they are afraid of how they will look. Either they will look nerdy (they think) or they will look like they are less than perfect (have a flaw).
So here is my response to the flaw thing…we KNOW you aren’t perfect already… so get over yourself and go buy a pair of designer reading glasses, that way you won’t look like a nerd!!! 
i don’t have much choice………..without my glasses i’m blind in one eye and can’t see out of the other one……………yikes….
When I was in 3rd grade I couldn’t wait to get glasses. By senior year I had ditched the glasses for contacts. Now I have reading glasses on a chain around my neck at all times even though I am not an “old lady”. I don’t even care if I do look like a nerd. At this point I am more interested in being practical and convenient than being vain.