My wife and I are both nearsighted as shit. We’ve made peace with the fact that our soon to be born little nerdling is probably going to be fitted for specs before he/she hits 1st grade. 

But what if we could actually limit the damage to our sweet little coke-bottle-eyed angel? There’s an interesting theory that underexposure to bright outdoor light exacerbates or even causes juvenile nearsightedness. (That’s why it correlates with being a nerd: you were inside reading while the jocks were out playing ball every day.) If screens on iPads, laptops, and other things that my kid will inevitably be using all the time could be made to perform better outdoors, maybe he/she would be more inclined to do their nerdy development outdoors and save their eyesight. Maybe.