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Build schools outside, more hybrid spaces/semi-indoor, spend more time doing activities outside, teach your kids sailing,mountain climbing, astronomy... Etc, en

Build schools outside, more hybrid spaces/semi-indoor, spend more time doing activities outside, teach your kids sailing,mountain climbing, astronomy... Etc, engage with more nature. Learning happens in the real natural world as much as it happens in books. Take the books and apply it's lessons to reality. Step out of Plato's cave and discover the world. I grew up with myopia since I was 12. I always wondered why it exists evolutionarily it seems like a huge problem for survival. It's another modern disease. I know what to do to change things for my kids in the future.

Projectiboga 3y ago
Actually the followup to the initial paper it turns out it's shifting focus from near to far and back. I spent hours outside, maybe school caught up with me I was myopic by 2nd grade. I heard about that focus shift far, short, far is a big part. I taught my kid to focus up on tall buildings we can see. I'm between Murray hill and Gramercy in Manhattan, we have some views out our window and my now 15 year old has perfect vision. Eye Doctor assumes his eye is mostly if not full grown and he escaped the last couple of generations on both sides of the family. His success is more the focus changes than lots of daylight. Daylight surely helps with mood so I did teach him to get 20 even 30 minutes of daylight into his retina but not hours.
- J_Shelby_J 3y ago
  Can you link to the follow up?
- owenversteeg 3y ago
  I completely agree that it’s the near-far-near focusing while outdoors. I read this on HN years ago right after getting my first indication that one eye was just barely no longer 20/20. I was always proud of my perfect vision and was quite worried. Since then I have tried to do several of those near-far-near transitions outdoors every morning and my vision is back to perfect in both eyes and has stayed there.

Projectiboga 3y ago

Actually the followup to the initial paper it turns out it's shifting focus from near to far and back. I spent hours outside, maybe school caught up with me I was myopic by 2nd grade. I heard about that focus shift far, short, far is a big part. I taught my kid to focus up on tall buildings we can see. I'm between Murray hill and Gramercy in Manhattan, we have some views out our window and my now 15 year old has perfect vision. Eye Doctor assumes his eye is mostly if not full grown and he escaped the last couple of generations on both sides of the family. His success is more the focus changes than lots of daylight. Daylight surely helps with mood so I did teach him to get 20 even 30 minutes of daylight into his retina but not hours.

J_Shelby_J 3y ago
Can you link to the follow up?
owenversteeg 3y ago
I completely agree that it’s the near-far-near focusing while outdoors. I read this on HN years ago right after getting my first indication that one eye was just barely no longer 20/20. I was always proud of my perfect vision and was quite worried. Since then I have tried to do several of those near-far-near transitions outdoors every morning and my vision is back to perfect in both eyes and has stayed there.