Did your 99th percentile kid stay tall?
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Anonymous
| My daughter landed at 5'7" by age 15/16. Until about 13, she was always the 2nd or 3rd tallest in the class. |
Anonymous
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DS was 90+% throughout childhood and 99% at age 13. He hasn't grown much since then. He's just shy of 5'11" at 15.5.
I'm pretty tall so I thought he'd make 6" but DH is 5'10". |
Anonymous
| One did. One didn’t. |
Anonymous
How is that tough? My daughter would kill to be that tall. You must not have any basketball or volleyball players. |
Anonymous
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The few 99th percentile kids I know from childhood did stay tall- girls around 5'11" and boys 6'4" or taller. All had tall moms and tall dads.
I have one short kid (DD16 and 5'1") and one tall kid (DS14 and 6'1"); both have followed their percentile projection. FWIW, I'm 5'3" and DH is 6'1". |
Anonymous
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The curves were drawn so we can easily see the data. It’s not predictive. No pediatrician looks at a newborn born in the 99th percentile for weight and predicts that she will be 175 lbs at age 17. The curve isn’t a pathway. It’s an artificial line that has been fitted to individual data points at each time point.
If the cdc had taken all baby girls born at the 5th percentile for weight, graphed their weight and height over time until they reached age 20, and then used either algebraic or geometric means to fit a curve to the data, then that curve could be useful for determining your best guess for growth, as long as the data wasn’t too “noisy”. But that’s not how it’s done. There is no “falling off the curve” because the curve doesn’t represent anyone’s growth pattern or anyone’s goal growth pattern. You should treat the numbers like you treat bmi. It’s a data point. It doesn’t tell you what the next data point will be. |
Anonymous
Yeah my kid is basketball player and projects to be about 6 feet. She's as fast as it gets, but still will need that height to compete at the highest level. I will take any edge one can get in this unequal society we have built. |
Anonymous
+1. I wish they could meet! |
Anonymous
That’s like saying have blue eyes with pale skin is helpful in life. It’s not true. |
Anonymous
That’s good. One thing about my tall nieces with larger breasts is they slouch. If she starts to slouch discourage it. Tell her she looks great, especially when she stands tall |
Anonymous
Really? That’s what you think of ? Being honest it’s just as tough being overly tall girl as being an overly Short boy. It’s not tragic but it’s easier not being an outlier. As for sports my tall niece played middle school and varsity high school basketball because her mother insisted on one activity. No clubs and she didn’t like it all that much. But she was tall so she was put on the varsity team. Sports my family play are football, lacrosse, tennis and the toughest activity two of them are serious about is ballet. The tallest nephew I have is 6’5”. He did not play basketball. Zero interest. Now he’s a college graduate and people constantly talk to him about his height. Gotta be annoying. |
Anonymous
I am 6' feet. I liked being tall as a girl. I am also the person with the 6' foot 14 year old (the second). She LOVES it. My kid plays sports. I didn't. |
Anonymous
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I'm a girl who was 99th percentile but started dieting really aggressively in 7th grade and only ended up 5'4. I wasn't heavy but it was the 1990s so I wanted to be tiny and only ate 1200ish calories for most of jr high and high school. I think if I had eaten normally I would have been tall like both of my parents and my sibling.
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Anonymous
| Mine hit the midpoint of the curve at early puberty and is in about the 60th for height at 15 |
Anonymous
I bet you were surprised about your DD. Given your heights, she should have been 5’4” or more. |