When did your son go through growth spurt?

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure if this is based on data or anecdotal but a doctor once told me that kids who get their teeth late tend to grow more slowly.

That rings true for my kid. He definitely was slow to get teeth...and seems to be taking a slower, more gradual growth in height. At 15.75 yrs, he's just hitting 5ft 8in. I'm hoping he has at least 2 more inches in his growth trajectory.

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Anonymous wrote:DS almost 14, no growth spurt yet.

Same. My older son didn’t really Have his until 15. The pictures from 14 to 15.5 are remarkable.

My 14-year old has a baby face and voice hasn’t changed. He looks younger.

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Anonymous wrote:DS almost 14, no growth spurt yet.

Same. My older son didn’t really Have his until 15. The pictures from 14 to 15.5 are remarkable.

My 14-year old has a baby face and voice hasn’t changed. He looks younger.

Oh—and my 14-year old is still losing baby teeth. So it mirrors what pps say.

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Not until his junior year of high school. Started high school at 5'5" and finished at 6'1. Just home from college and we are off to buy new clothes, still growing. He is 6'3" now.

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Anonymous wrote: Not until his junior year of high school. Started high school at 5'5" and finished at 6'1. Just home from college and we are off to buy new clothes, still growing. He is 6'3" now.

This is how we grow in my family. It sucks for my younger son who is a great athlete but behind physically than peers who hit early growth spurts.

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Anonymous wrote:Oldest DS grew a foot between 11 & 14 - from 5'2" to 6'2". He's 18yo now and has probably only grown another inch since then.

Younger DS is 13yo now and 5'7". No significant growth spurt until 12yo when he grew 6". He's always been 99% or above on the charts so I've been assuming he'll be as tall as his brother. But if so, it will be on a slower track.

This timeframe and similar heights. It’s hard to be 13 and 6’3” and taller than your teachers.

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DS grew 4 inches in 9th grade and then another 4 inches in the 4 following years.

if you want to asses where DC is, look at the Tanner Scales

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I have three sons. Oldest and middle had their growth spurts early. They both started going through puberty at 12 and that's when they went through their spurts. When my middle DS started high school, he towered over all his friends - he was 5'10". He has barely grown since he was 14. He's now 19 and is only 5'11". My youngest didn't start growing until he was almost 15. He's now 17 and is still growing.

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure if this is based on data or anecdotal but a doctor once told me that kids who get their teeth late tend to grow more slowly.

That rings true for my kid. He definitely was slow to get teeth...and seems to be taking a slower, more gradual growth in height. At 15.75 yrs, he's just hitting 5ft 8in. I'm hoping he has at least 2 more inches in his growth trajectory.

This wasn’t true for either of mine. My 5’10” 15 year old had to have four baby teeth pulled at 14 because he still hadn’t lost them or gotten those adult teeth. He has a huge growth spurt 13-14. My 13 year old also just had four teeth pulled and still has two baby teeth and has huge gaps where his adult teeth haven’t come in. He’s had a major growth spurt over the last year.

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He grew 12 inches between the summer after 5th grade (age 11) and the summer after 8th grade. He grew so quickly that he developed mild scoliosis.

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Anonymous wrote:He grew 12 inches between the summer after 5th grade (age 11) and the summer after 8th grade. He grew so quickly that he developed mild scoliosis.

I hit reply too soon. He was the smallest kid in 5th grade so he was playing catch up. He is 17 now and probably mostly done growing. He also developed those purple stretch marks all over his back and they are fading in the same way they showed up (left side of his back down to his waist and up the right side). He is about 5'5" now.

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At about 13 or 14. He grew almost 8 inches. Is now 6'1" at 17. He has only grown about one inch in the last two years.

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Mine started at about 12 -- he grew about a foot in the first year of the covid lockdown, and like another poster noted, he's got stretch marks on his back. He's 14 now and still going. I swear some mornings I wake up and he seems even taller. He's almost 6 feet at this point. He's getting advanced on puberty, but not all the way through it yet. He gets facial hair but it's pretty soft, and still no chest hair. He's got hair everywhere else.

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Anonymous wrote:Mine started at about 12 -- he grew about a foot in the first year of the covid lockdown, and like another poster noted, he's got stretch marks on his back. He's 14 now and still going. I swear some mornings I wake up and he seems even taller. He's almost 6 feet at this point. He's getting advanced on puberty, but not all the way through it yet. He gets facial hair but it's pretty soft, and still no chest hair. He's got hair everywhere else.

We are late growers and my 16 year old barely has facial hair. He didn’t grow until 15 and is 5’11, orthopedist said growth plates still open. His feet went to size 8 to size 12.5 in one year.

His brother is even farther behind with no voice change, baby face, like one underarm hair at 14. He’s just about my height 5-4”-barely 5’5” and so stick skinny.

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Anonymous wrote:Mine started at about 12 -- he grew about a foot in the first year of the covid lockdown, and like another poster noted, he's got stretch marks on his back. He's 14 now and still going. I swear some mornings I wake up and he seems even taller. He's almost 6 feet at this point. He's getting advanced on puberty, but not all the way through it yet. He gets facial hair but it's pretty soft, and still no chest hair. He's got hair everywhere else.

We are late growers and my 16 year old barely has facial hair. He didn’t grow until 15 and is 5’11, orthopedist said growth plates still open. His feet went to size 8 to size 12.5 in one year.

His brother is even farther behind with no voice change, baby face, like one underarm hair at 14. He’s just about my height 5-4”-barely 5’5” and so stick skinny.

Males in my family grow 1-2 inches in college. Most of my older son’s friends that grew early stopped growing Freshmen year in high school. You will see a lot of the “tall kids” become average or smaller. Of course, some kids were always tall and remain that way.