Is the Generic One-Size Kids Sunglasses 12-Pack worth buying?

Save yourself the box in the garage — spending eight bucks more on one real pair is genuinely the better deal. If I could go back and give myself one piece of advice before buying my seventeenth pair of kids sunglasses, it would be this: check the nose bridge first. Flexible and rubberized beats hard plastic every single time, especially on younger kids whose faces are still in that beautiful, totally-inconsistent stage of development. Everything else — color, style, whether they have little sharks on the arms — is negotiable. Rosie will tell you differently, but I have the receipts to prove my point. If you’ve found a pair that actually stays on your kid’s face and I missed it, please drop it in the comments. This is an ongoing research project in our house and Rosie takes it very seriously. She’s already planning her ‘summer sunglasses’ with the kind of energy I wish I could apply to my actual job.

Note W000589. Filed.