If your child’s glasses prescription seems to get stronger every year, you’re not imagining it. Childhood myopia is rising fast, and it’s starting earlier than ever. Some projections estimate that by 2030, nearly half of North America will have myopia .  That matters because myopia is not just “blurry distance vision”; it’s often linked to the eye growing longer over time (axial elongation), and higher levels of myopia increase the risk of serious, sight-threatening problems