When did your 99th percentile kid stop growing?

[Anonymous]

My 99th percentile kid looks like he has topped out at 6’1. He is 16.

[Anonymous]

DS was 99th for height until mid elementary school, then dropped to 80th or so. Topped out at 5'11", which I think puts him around 70th percentile as an adult.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was like that as a kid. Started puberty at 10, period at 11, and topped out at 5'7" by 12. Not sure what percentile that is, but I was supposed to be over 6'. My grandmother was 5'11", my aunt 6'0, brother 6'4". No clue what happened to me.

Most women don’t want to be over six feet. 5’7” is the best height because clothes are based on that height.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have a family friend whose son was always 99th percentile. He was huge in preschool and elementary. He was still huge in middle school. He was probably 5’10” freshmen year and is now 5’11” so he didn’t end up as tall as we all would have thought. He basically stopped being tall in high school. His dad is 5’10” and his mom is 5’3”.

Parents are biggest indicators of height.

+1

We have known several kids who were very large for age throughout childhood. Off the top of my head, they all seem to have ended up more or less as you’d expect based on the parents. The tall ones all have at least one tall parent, I think.

When my son was little and we were out and about moms with little kids would make small talk. They would ask how old my son was. Whether he was 2 or 3 or 4 there would always be one mom would comment on how tall he was. He was average height as a child, I don’t know why the comments except people aren’t good judgments of kid’s sizes.

[Anonymous]

Being the 99th percentile at birth means that they are in the 99th percentile at birth. It doesn’t mean that they will stay along that curve. The curve doesn’t represent any child’s growth pattern. It is a curve that was artificially smoothed and fitted to represent the percentile values over the years.

For example, this is a simplification, but the way the curves were developed can be thought of like this - in a study of 500 participants, the 99th percentile data point at age 4 weeks might be composed of study participants A, B, C, D and X. The 99th percentile data point at age 6 months might be composed of study participants B, G, F, H, and X. The study doesn’t track participant A over time. It tracks the 99th percentile at each time point. It’s true that kids who started at the 25th percentile are more likely to end up there than kids who started at the 75th percentile, but the graph gives zero information about that likelihood.

[Anonymous]

6'5'' at 15 and growing. Was always off the charts.

[Anonymous]

DD1 - is 6.5 and so far has been between 95% 99+% (off the chart) for height her entire life. Weight constant at around 75%. I am curious if she will stay 95%+ because mom is short (5'2") and dad is tall (6'3").

DD2 - 4 and has vacillated between 25% and 75% for height. Weight ranges between 25% and 50% roughly in sync with height %.

[Anonymous]

Kept growing through freshman year of college - tallest by 3” in the family.

[Anonymous]

DS 6’3” around 18.
Grew to 6’4” sophomore yr in college.

[Anonymous]

DS was 99th percentile at birth and is still there at 13, currently 5’11”. DH is 6’4” so we won’t be surprised is he ends up at his height or taller. I’m 5’5”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DS was 99th percentile at birth and is still there at 13, currently 5’11”. DH is 6’4” so we won’t be surprised is he ends up at his height or taller. I’m 5’5”

He will almost certainly be shorter than your DH, given your height. Both parents’ genes matter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DS was 99th percentile at birth and is still there at 13, currently 5’11”. DH is 6’4” so we won’t be surprised is he ends up at his height or taller. I’m 5’5”

He will almost certainly be shorter than your DH, given your height. Both parents’ genes matter.

if you say so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DS was 99th percentile at birth and is still there at 13, currently 5’11”. DH is 6’4” so we won’t be surprised is he ends up at his height or taller. I’m 5’5”

He will almost certainly be shorter than your DH, given your height. Both parents’ genes matter.

NP: of course both parents’ genes matter but it isn’t an even distribution, so to speak. Plenty of full siblings differ quite a bit in height- with one taking after a taller parent and the other taking after a shorter parent. One of our sons is average (like me) and the other is tall (like DH).

Who knows how tall their son will end up. Not many boys are done growing at age 13.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DD1 - is 6.5 and so far has been between 95% 99+% (off the chart) for height her entire life. Weight constant at around 75%. I am curious if she will stay 95%+ because mom is short (5'2") and dad is tall (6'3").

DD2 - 4 and has vacillated between 25% and 75% for height. Weight ranges between 25% and 50% roughly in sync with height %.

Your daughter is 6’5”? That sucks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD1 - is 6.5 and so far has been between 95% 99+% (off the chart) for height her entire life. Weight constant at around 75%. I am curious if she will stay 95%+ because mom is short (5'2") and dad is tall (6'3").

DD2 - 4 and has vacillated between 25% and 75% for height. Weight ranges between 25% and 50% roughly in sync with height %.

Your daughter is 6’5”? That sucks.

You dumb