Why are kids so big now?

[Anonymous]

We just got the roster for our almost 10 year old’s baseball club with height and weight. Kids are all within a year of him. My son is in the 95 percentile for height and 85% for weight and most kids have 15-40 lbs on him. He’s the smallest on his roster by 10 lbs! He’s 84 lbs and turns 10 next week and just under 5’. Why is everyone so big now? He is small in his friend group.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We just got the roster for our almost 10 year old’s baseball club with height and weight. Kids are all within a year of him. My son is in the 95 percentile for height and 85% for weight and most kids have 15-40 lbs on him. He’s the smallest on his roster by 10 lbs! He’s 84 lbs and turns 10 next week and just under 5’. Why is everyone so big now? He is small in his friend group.

How is he 85% for weight? Are your sure? My 9 year old daughter (turns 10 in 5 months) is 80 pounds and is only in the 75%. She is around 4’9” (75% for that too).

[Anonymous]

Wow.. they are. I remember taking my daughter to her annual checkup when she was 11. She was about 5'0"-5'1" and the doctor said she weighed 85 lbs. My then 7-year-old son teased her during the appointment and said she was fat for being 85 lbs. She started crying right there. I had to reassure her that she was nowhere near fat and that she was beautiful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We just got the roster for our almost 10 year old’s baseball club with height and weight. Kids are all within a year of him. My son is in the 95 percentile for height and 85% for weight and most kids have 15-40 lbs on him. He’s the smallest on his roster by 10 lbs! He’s 84 lbs and turns 10 next week and just under 5’. Why is everyone so big now? He is small in his friend group.

How is he 85% for weight? Are your sure? My 9 year old daughter (turns 10 in 5 months) is 80 pounds and is only in the 75%. She is around 4’9” (75% for that too).

He’s in the 83 percentile for weight. I am going off the pediatrician’s well check. This is at 84 lbs and about to turn 10 next week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We just got the roster for our almost 10 year old’s baseball club with height and weight. Kids are all within a year of him. My son is in the 95 percentile for height and 85% for weight and most kids have 15-40 lbs on him. He’s the smallest on his roster by 10 lbs! He’s 84 lbs and turns 10 next week and just under 5’. Why is everyone so big now? He is small in his friend group.

How is he 85% for weight? Are your sure? My 9 year old daughter (turns 10 in 5 months) is 80 pounds and is only in the 75%. She is around 4’9” (75% for that too).

Your measurements are way off. . If your child is a girl, she is in the 96th percentile for height, the 82nd percentile for weight, and the 54th percentile for BMI.

[Anonymous]

Because you are comparing him to kids whose parents self selected them to play sports in a club. Most will be much larger than average.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because you are comparing him to kids whose parents self selected them to play sports in a club. Most will be much larger than average.

+1 this seemed obvious from the post

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because you are comparing him to kids whose parents self selected them to play sports in a club. Most will be much larger than average.

Yup. Not a random sample by any means.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because you are comparing him to kids whose parents self selected them to play sports in a club. Most will be much larger than average.

+1 this seemed obvious from the post

Next OP will be asking why so many kids are 10 year old boys!?

[Anonymous]

So the other kids are almost a year older or what? Within a year seems to suggest that which matters a lot at this age. And baseball attracts the heavier kids because there’s a lot less running involved.

[Anonymous]

I think it’s odd that a kid’s baseball team sends out everyone’s height and weight to all the parents. I could understand a wrestling team or some other sport where those stats are important but not baseball and not a team of 10 yr olds.

[Anonymous]

Because your kid has a spring/summer birthday and the others were either red-shirted or have fall birthdays, but either way, they've been 10 for a while.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s odd that a kid’s baseball team sends out everyone’s height and weight to all the parents. I could understand a wrestling team or some other sport where those stats are important but not baseball and not a team of 10 yr olds.

Agree. So weird.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s odd that a kid’s baseball team sends out everyone’s height and weight to all the parents. I could understand a wrestling team or some other sport where those stats are important but not baseball and not a team of 10 yr olds.

This is weird.

[Anonymous]

I assume this is some sort of all stars or travel team given the time of year. Baseball self selects for the kids who can pop a single or double into the outfield, or hit a HR. On our team, most of the kids doing that are the chunky kids. Looking at the parents of these kids, I think a lot will even out after puberty. None of the parents are huge.

There is a kid in 10U who is a giant, taller than the tallest 12U kids, almost as tall as his dad who is not tall, maybe 5'10. The kid must be 5'7 or so. I often think there's no way this kid is 10, even if he just turned 11 he's still off the charts tall. Maybe they slip him HGH or something idk. It's not clear where his height comes from genetically.