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When I was a kid, I remember the last day of school: cleaning out my desk and locker, saying goodbye to teachers, and heading home for months of freedom. Even though I enjoyed school, I enjoyed riding my bike, staying up late reading, and sleepovers any day of the week. In fact, a hallmark of summer was not really having to keep track of which day of the week it was, because it didn’t really matter.

Bright Eyes Family Vision Care is growing and we are hiring people with who want to help in our mission to empower patients through providing the best in friendly, professional, and individualized eye care.

In Tampa, sunny days are part of everyday life. From driving along Bayshore Boulevard to spending time near the water, your eyes are constantly exposed to bright light, glare, and UV rays. Regular sunglasses can help reduce brightness, but polarized sunwear offers an added level of comfort and clarity in high-glare environments.

Bright Eyes Family Vision is turning 20 years old this summer! And that means that we’ve been providing options to help control children’s vision for almost two decades. During this time, there has been so much research and new developments. It has been very exciting to offer new solutions for patients. The latest of these is the Stellest Myopia Control spectacle lens.

Our mission at Bright Eyes Family Vision Care and Bright Eyes Kids is to empower our patients providing the best in friendly, professional, and individualized eye care. For many of our patients this includes getting not only each eye to see as clearly as possible, but to get the eyes to work together as team as effortlessly as possible. For some patients, this requires Vision Therapy, but for others it requires special lenses. Shaw lenses are designed specifically to make it easy for the eyes to work together.

If you struggle with blinking, closing one eye, headaches, motion sickness, reading difficulty or anxiety in large stores - come on in to have a deeper look at your binocular vision.

Eye misalignment can be subtle, but it can still have a major impact on how you feel throughout the day. In many cases, people with eye misalignment are not aware that their eyes are not working together as they should. Instead, they notice symptoms such as headaches, dizziness, blurred vision, or trouble focusing.

A topic that comes up frequently in the exam room is school. Today there are almost as many ways to educate children as there are children. Many kids learn through a mix of classroom instruction, co-ops, microschools, virtual school, and homeschooling, often supported by tutors, educational specialists, and therapists.

To empower is to “make someone stronger and more confident, especially in controlling their life and claiming their rights.” As an optometrist, that is what I do

Myopia affects millions of children and often progresses throughout childhood. Traditional glasses help children see clearly, but they don’t slow the worsening of myopia over time. Today, advances in eye care have made it possible to manage myopia more effectively. At Bright Eyes Family Vision Care, we offer Essilor Stellest™ lenses - an innovative option designed to help slow myopia progression in children.