A Welsh mum has written a book to encourage children to wear glasses after being inspired by her own family. Katy Tainton, 37, from Skewen, felt the need to write her first book - The Amazing Fairy Glasses - after her eldest daughter Belle was diagnosed with long-sightedness at the age of two.
After many appointments she was told her daughter had intermittent esotropia, which is a type of strabismus that causes the eye to turn inward. Belle was given glasses and was told to wear them all the time, but Katy found it a struggle to convince Belle to wear them. Belle was so little at the time that she couldn’t understand what they were for, and would always protest against wearing them and pull them off.
The mother-of-three looked for books she could read to Belle to show her how her glasses could help her, but she quickly discovered there were few books on the topic. Then Belle’s younger brother, Leo, received the same diagnosis three years later and like his sister didn't want to wear glasses.
