A conscientious doctor would recommend glasses if there were symptoms
(headaches, avoiding close work) or objective findings like esotropia or
reduced stereo vision. Since they did not recommend glasses outright, we
assume there were no such findings.

Some doctors would be appalled at NOT recommending glasses in this case. But
in the absence of symptoms or objective findings, there's no compelling
reason to make him wear glasses. Hyperopia is the normal condition for young
people and they have enormous reserves for coping with it.

As age and the quantity of near work increases, he might tolerate the
hyperopia without symptoms until his third decade. Or he may need glasses
for symptoms that crop up. Or he may be one of the 25% of (caucasians?) who
start turning nearsighted about age 10, and that would reverse the
condition.

What you do now is not likely to influence any of these outcomes.

Suggestion - get him a "cool" pair of drugstore +2.00 glasses and see if he
likes to wear them when he reads. (The +3.25 was measured in artificial
conditions and "full" correction is not always used.)

-MT, OD