childhood while the eyes are still developing if you don't practice looking into the distance you can end up short sighted in many countries children spend too little time out of doors and too many hours staring at phones or tablets starting is a very early age this development is particularly acute in countries like singapore south korea china and taiwan. a dragon boat race in taipei an exciting event especially if you can tell who's out in front yet many here can see about this much practically nothing. some eighty percent of taiwanese children like peggy are severely short sighted by the time they leave school peggy's mother only realized this when peggy was twelve years old she was constantly falling behind in class i think. one day she came home and couldn't read anymore the doctor told me that peggy would need an operation if i