THIS SUMMER, GET RID OF EYEGLASSES IN YOUR CHILDREN
- Madhukar Dama
- Apr 16
- 2 min read
A brutal wake-up call for Indian parents raising screen-strained, spectacle-dependent children
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THE EYE CRISIS IN OUR HOMES
Look around.
Your child — 8 years old, maybe 14 — already has spectacles.
Not because of genetics.
But because of unnatural living.
Screens before speech.
LEDs before sunlight.
Indoor prisons called schools.
Homeworks on laptops.
Digital toys, video classes, mobile phones — 6 hours minimum daily screen time.
This isn’t vision.
It’s gradual blindness sold as education.
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SUMMER COMES — AND WE MESS THAT UP TOO
Summer was our last hope.
A time to break free from fluorescent ceilings and eye-killing homework.
But what do we do?
We enroll them in more structured camps.
Chess. Coding. Robotics. Grammar polishing.
All indoors. All lit with screens.
All pushing the same false promise — “Use summer to get ahead.”
No.
Summer was meant to slow down, heal, and reset the senses.
Especially the eyes.
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A DIFFERENT PATH: AURO CENTRE FOR PERFECT VISION
Located in Auroville, Tamil Nadu
This is not a hospital.
Not a camp.
Not a course.
It is a place to remember how eyes were designed to work.
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WHAT THEY DO
They don’t prescribe lenses.
They help you throw them away.
Their work is based on natural methods, including the Bates Method, and focuses on:
Relaxing the eye muscles
Reconnecting with natural light
Palming, sunning, blinking, and proper focus techniques
Breathwork, posture, body awareness
Untraining the mind’s visual stress habits
There are no machines.
Only your body, your breath, sunlight, and open space.
The original therapy.
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WHY IT WORKS
Because vision loss today is not about the eye.
It’s about:
Mental tension
Overstimulated brains
Artificial indoor environments
Continuous close-up focus
Lack of real light and movement
Their approach reverses the root causes — not just symptoms.
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DON’T SEND THEM TO LEARN MORE. LET THEM UNLEARN.
In Auroville, children don’t get awards.
They get back their ability to see.
This summer, imagine your child:
Waking up with the sun
Walking barefoot on red earth
Gazing at trees, not tablets
Learning how to breathe again
Eating simple, whole food
Discovering silence — and themselves
Reclaiming their sight, naturally
They will not return with certificates.
They will return with eyes that work.
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IF YOU CAN’T GO TO AUROVILLE, THEN START AT HOME
Throw away LED bulbs from their bedroom.
Ban screens from mornings and meals.
Send them outside, even if they “get bored.”
Make them walk barefoot. Climb. Gaze at stars. Lie on grass.
Give them whole fruits, not packets.
Let them rest — not consume.
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STOP SAYING “THEY’RE TOO YOUNG FOR HEALING”
Children are not too young.
They’re too young to be broken like this.
Reclaim their vision before their eyes forget how to live without a lens.
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RESOURCES
Visit: Auro Centre for Perfect Vision
Recommended Reading:
Better Eyesight Without Glasses – Dr. W.H. Bates
Relearning to See – Thomas Quackenbush
Natural Eye Health Videos – Search for “Bates Method India” on YouTube
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