If your kids ended up being tall

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Anonymous wrote:
Track their height on the CDC growth chart for several years and you'll have good idea of where they will end up based on that curve.

This is not true. The curves do not represent predicted growth over time. They just show you the data point from an aggregate at each percentile over time. If you graph each subject individually, the kids who start at x percentile have wildly differing curves.

I’m sure you know that age of puberty onset varies as much as 5 years for boys, so it wouldn’t make sense that one graph could capture expected growth for a
50th percentile kid who starts puberty at age 9 vs age 14

https://public-pages-files-2025.frontiersin.org/journals/pediatrics/articles/10.3389/fped.2024.1372013/pdf

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I think there is a correlation between height and foot size but it is by no means an indicator.

My DS is 6’1” and wears a 10.5. DD is 5’7” and wears a 7.5. They are on the taller side but don’t have what I consider big feet. Their feet have always been pretty average sized.

IME watching my own kids and their friends grow up, the childhood growth charts can’t possibly be very predictive. It all changes at puberty. Plenty of tall kids from elementary did not end up tall in the end (for example), and some smaller kids grew a ton during puberty & did not end up small. Final height really isn’t even worth speculating about at this point.

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DH and I are both 5’8”-5’9” ish. DS is 6’4”.
His pediatrician told him he’d be 5’11”.

His shoe size is 11, which is not especially large. My dad wears a 12 and is 6’. I don’t think you can tell from shoe size.

Just wait and see.

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Most of the kids in my son's class that were really tall as elementary school kids peaked early and were average height by HS.

One kid was 5'6 in 5th grade. Parents had him marked for sports stardom. In hs he was 5'7

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Yes. DD was wearing a 9 at 14 and she shot up to 5’9 in a couple of seconds

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My DD was always 90th+ percentile for height. She is now 5’10” at 15 and probably done growing but we can’t be sure yet. As a kid she actually didn’t have big feet but she does now wear a women’s 10.

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Anonymous wrote:Why so obsessed with height? I will never get this.

Welcome to DCUM where everyone’s teen sons are 6’2” and above. I think moms here figure they will definitely get grandkids if their son is tall and that’s why it’s such a pressing priority. Let’s hope all your tall athletic sons are heterosexual.

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Anonymous wrote:DH and I are both 5’8”-5’9” ish. DS is 6’4”.
His pediatrician told him he’d be 5’11”.

His shoe size is 11, which is not especially large. My dad wears a 12 and is 6’. I don’t think you can tell from shoe size.

Just wait and see.

How did the pediatrician come up with that number, when you are both under 5 10? And how did you get your pediatrician to even offer a number? I can't get my pediatrician to say anything about anything.

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Anonymous wrote:Did they have big feet when they were little? I have a DS6 who has big kids size 2 shoes and a DD9 who has adult women size 8 shoes. DS 6 is in the 99th percentile and DS9 is in the 75th percentile for height. Curiously wondering if they will maintain their growth curves into their full adult size and if shoe size is any indication. Obviously I know this is all anecdotal and the biggest determination is parents size/genetics. Height does run in both of our families although DH is only 5'10" and DW is 5'8".

DD will be a great swimmer!

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Anonymous wrote:DH and I are both 5’8”-5’9” ish. DS is 6’4”.
His pediatrician told him he’d be 5’11”.

His shoe size is 11, which is not especially large. My dad wears a 12 and is 6’. I don’t think you can tell from shoe size.

Just wait and see.

How did the pediatrician come up with that number, when you are both under 5 10? And how did you get your pediatrician to even offer a number? I can't get my pediatrician to say anything about anything.

Mom is tall, obviously. You have to take gender differences into account and 5’8 is 4 inches taller than average for women. Kids get their genes from both sides (not just the same gender parent).

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Anonymous wrote:DH and I are both 5’8”-5’9” ish. DS is 6’4”.
His pediatrician told him he’d be 5’11”.

His shoe size is 11, which is not especially large. My dad wears a 12 and is 6’. I don’t think you can tell from shoe size.

Just wait and see.

How did the pediatrician come up with that number, when you are both under 5 10? And how did you get your pediatrician to even offer a number? I can't get my pediatrician to say anything about anything.

My pediatrician gave me an unsolicited estimate of height when my son was two years old. I didn’t pay any attention because predictions are not usually accurate.

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Just went to my kid's checkup and the doctor said he's still growing but surely at 16, his height has stabilized? He's already taller than his father and is tall in general.

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Anonymous wrote:
Track their height on the CDC growth chart for several years and you'll have good idea of where they will end up based on that curve.

OP - my sons curve for the past 6 years has been 99th percentile for height and 95th percentile for weight. It seems unlikely he will remain on that curve forever! That would put him at 6'4" at 20 years old. But I guess stranger things have happened.

What? 6’4” 20 year old men exist, what on Earth is strange about that?

To answer your shoe size question, my tall kid has always had a shoe size that matches his age. Holding strong at 15…

Op - sorry meant it seems strange given parental height.

NP. I have a good friend who is 5'5" and her DH is 5'8". Her 16 YO is 6'3" and her 14 YO is 6'1". So you never know!

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Anonymous wrote:DH and I are both 5’8”-5’9” ish. DS is 6’4”.
His pediatrician told him he’d be 5’11”.

His shoe size is 11, which is not especially large. My dad wears a 12 and is 6’. I don’t think you can tell from shoe size.

Just wait and see.

How did the pediatrician come up with that number, when you are both under 5 10? And how did you get your pediatrician to even offer a number? I can't get my pediatrician to say anything about anything.

DS was always “off the charts” for height, my dad is 6’, DH’s brother is 6’3”. Genetics are unpredictable.