At what age did your teenage boy stop growing in...shoe size? height?

[Anonymous]

I hate this guessing game. My ex husband isn’t particularly tall but my daughter and I are tall. My son is almost 15 and not as tall as we are ( tall for a woman, avg for a man) Hoping beyond hope he’ll have a growth spurt but it’s feeling more and more unlikely as the months pass. He might be done.

[Anonymous]

I wonder if the mother of the well endowed boy has chimed in?

[Anonymous]

Try this for fun. https://www.calculator.net/height-calculator.html

If your child is 5”9 and 110 at 13 with tall parents they are likely to be taller than another kid the same age who is 5”11 and 170 pounds. The weight matters in the calculation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Try this for fun. https://www.calculator.net/height-calculator.html

If your child is 5”9 and 110 at 13 with tall parents they are likely to be taller than another kid the same age who is 5”11 and 170 pounds. The weight matters in the calculation.

NP here. According to this, my son will be 6’2” which is respectable considering I’m 5’3”. Kid is 11 now and doesn’t seem to have noticeable growth spurts…wonder if his growth will be steady until he reaches full grown or if he’ll shoot up one year in a major way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Try this for fun. https://www.calculator.net/height-calculator.html

If your child is 5”9 and 110 at 13 with tall parents they are likely to be taller than another kid the same age who is 5”11 and 170 pounds. The weight matters in the calculation.

I plugged in my husband and my height and it said our son should be 6 feet. He is already 6'3 with a size 14 foot at 15 and is still growing. It's so hard to predict. The only thing that would surprise me would be if my kids turned out short.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hate this guessing game. My ex husband isn’t particularly tall but my daughter and I are tall. My son is almost 15 and not as tall as we are ( tall for a woman, avg for a man) Hoping beyond hope he’ll have a growth spurt but it’s feeling more and more unlikely as the months pass. He might be done.

Have his ped do an x-ray of the growth plates in his wrist. That will let you know how much growing is left. We ended up doing a bone age x ray for DH, who turned out at 15 to have the average growth closure of a 12.5 yr old. Another friend whose son she expected to be tall (husband is tall) seemed to slow down. By the time they checked this, growth plate was closed. Done, he's 5'7". (Which isn't to say that's bad, but I think she's a bit embarrassed that she spent so much of his early teen years talking about how tall he was going to be as he was that height quite early).

[Anonymous]

My son is 14 and has been in an 11.5-12 shoe for about a year now. He is currently 6' tall. I'm wondering if he's done growing now that his feet haven't grown or... his father is 6'8 and I'm 5'2. My father was 6' tall as is my brother, and I have an uncle whose 7'3. I don't think he will be as tall as his father (I hope not, anyway!), but idk... from what his father had said, he was 6'4 at 18 and stayed that height until he was 20, then grew another 4".

[Anonymous]

DS is a very late bloomer and didn’t hit hit a growth spurt until 15, almost 16. Dr expects him to grow for 2-3 more years based on his bone age. At 16 he still looks very young, even though he’s 5’8” with a 10.5 shoe size. We were somewhere over the weekend and the person told DS that kids 12 and under can enter for free. 😆

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Anonymous wrote:According to the pediatric reference books I’ve seen, almost all boys are done growing at 16. Anecdotally a lot of people say their boys grew later.

I think this is the average, but yes, some do still keep growing into college.

DH hit puberty late, and grew in college. He's 6'2.

DS is 16, and just had his pediatrician appt, and the doctor said DS is still in the early stages of puberty, and that he hasn't really hit his growth spurt stage yet; he has years to grow, just like his dad. Years ago DS had an xray on his foot, and he Ortho said his bone growth was about 1 yr to 1.5 yrs behind.

I thought that the only way to accurately ascertain bone age was a hand X-ray?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to the pediatric reference books I’ve seen, almost all boys are done growing at 16. Anecdotally a lot of people say their boys grew later.

This can’t be right. Plenty of athletes (Jordan, Brady) randomly shot up a few inches in college, for example. I don’t know if it’s common but it’s a phenomenon that exists. Ask the pediatrician. Also, weight gain (without height gain) can make feet bigger!

DP here. It’s definitely correct. When physicians look at bone age they use 16 as the point that growing is complete because that’s the average. So if your bone age is 13 you have three more years of growth before you are done even if your chronological age is older.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DH is 5’6”. DS1 has always hovered just under the 95 percent tile, and is rarely shorter than his teammates or classmates. He had one classmate who is really off the charts tall, but other than that almost all friends with tall dads have been shorter than him. At 13 he was at was least 5’9” and every week he seems much taller (not the reality, but it feels that way).

DS2 is about a year younger and just reaches his brother’s shoulder in height. Early on the were close in height. We don’t expect him to be tall. We don’t care about his height, but pediatricians at every visit warn me not to rule out the possibility that he may end up to his brother’s height. Why do they say this? I am not wishing for two tall kids (ok if they are). It’s like they are trying to tell me something. SMH.

I would put money on your DS1 not ending up tall. He’ll be done growing very soon.

[Anonymous]

My son is 6’5” (just turned 18) and a little bit taller than 2x his height at 2 years old.

If we did the parent height thing he would be 6’1.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son is 14 and has been in an 11.5-12 shoe for about a year now. He is currently 6' tall. I'm wondering if he's done growing now that his feet haven't grown or... his father is 6'8 and I'm 5'2. My father was 6' tall as is my brother, and I have an uncle whose 7'3. I don't think he will be as tall as his father (I hope not, anyway!), but idk... from what his father had said, he was 6'4 at 18 and stayed that height until he was 20, then grew another 4".

That is an extreme height difference! 7’3” has got to make his life difficult. If either are skinny I wonder if any doctor checked for Marfan’s Syndrome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son is 14 and has been in an 11.5-12 shoe for about a year now. He is currently 6' tall. I'm wondering if he's done growing now that his feet haven't grown or... his father is 6'8 and I'm 5'2. My father was 6' tall as is my brother, and I have an uncle who’s 7'3. I don't think he will be as tall as his father (I hope not, anyway!), but idk... from what his father had said, he was 6'4 at 18 and stayed that height until he was 20, then grew another 4".

I call Bull on that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate this guessing game. My ex husband isn’t particularly tall but my daughter and I are tall. My son is almost 15 and not as tall as we are ( tall for a woman, avg for a man) Hoping beyond hope he’ll have a growth spurt but it’s feeling more and more unlikely as the months pass. He might be done.

Have his ped do an x-ray of the growth plates in his wrist. That will let you know how much growing is left. We ended up doing a bone age x ray for DH, who turned out at 15 to have the average growth closure of a 12.5 yr old. Another friend whose son she expected to be tall (husband is tall) seemed to slow down. By the time they checked this, growth plate was closed. Done, he's 5'7". (Which isn't to say that's bad, but I think she's a bit embarrassed that she spent so much of his early teen years talking about how tall he was going to be as he was that height quite early).

Why would you get your son an x-ray when there was nothing wrong with him?