
Pretty much, and after seeing what lengths people go to for beauty, it shouldn't be surprising to know some men wear shoes with lifts inside to appear taller. |
You can’t make yourself professional athlete or a rocket scientist, for example, but you can work on increasing your athletic skills so that playing sports is enjoyable. You can study and learn to the best of your ability. You can work on your beauty with make up, clothes, plastic surgery. There’s nothing you can do about height if you’re a typical American without any serious illnesses. No one should waste their time aspiring to be tall. |
That’s unusual, he must have a lot of stretch marks. That’s over an inch every month! Wait, he was 4’6” when he was 14 years old? |
What Tanner stage is he at 14 years old? And you can’t predict height based in two males in his family. Your height matters more than grandfathers. What is your height? And that’s just a rough estimate. Siblings would all be the same height if that formula was 100% accurate. |
PP here. I asked if he had stretch marks and she said no. He did have some growth plate problems in his ankles. Yes, she said he was a very small kid. I think attributes it to a short dad and ADHD meds. |
If he was 5’2” in middle school he was right in the middle of the pack and had nothing to be self conscious about. My son was 5’3” at 13 and Tanner 2 for puberty. He ended up being 6’. He was always in the 50 - 75%tile. Always rolling along in the middle. Perfect place to be in my opinion. |
Shut up |
Agree. It’s bizarre when people claim there is a height that their child is destined to be. Those things are accurate plus or minus 3 inches and clearly a six inch difference is pretty big meaning they are worthless. |
NP here. In my 14 year old's case, he is 2 inches shorter than his father and if you follow his growth curve, he's projected to be at least the same height as his dad. Plus, he had an arm injury so had x-rays and orthopedic surgeon said his growth plates are wide open with more growing left. So between being in Tanner 2 stage, his dad's height and his male cousins' height, and the open growth plates, I would say there's a better than good chance he'll reach his father's height. I'm 5'3" which isn't tall, but my husband's mother is 4'11" while my husband is 6'1" and his nephews are 6'2" and 6'3", so the male height in that family doesn't seem terribly impacted by the women's height. |
I am proud of his height but I don’t ever mention it unless someone comments on it, then I say oh yeah thanks.
Unfortunately it’s like the looks - just luck! Too much meaning attached to it. |
This. |
Johnny is kind AND tall. And he will always be taller than Larlo. |
I’m surprised that people think they can predict their kids’ heights based on parents, grandparents etc- it really doesn’t work that way IME. For example, my own sons will be likely 4-5 inches different in height (one is full grown and the other had a bone scan and full work up due to late puberty which gives a pretty accurate prediction). We know a set of (full grown) brothers- where one is 5’8” and the other 6’2”. Tall dad and short mom. Lots of other examples like this that I can think of in our families/friend group. For example my DH has four sisters- they range in height from 5’3”-5’8”. We know a family with 3 sons- the older two are both 6’2” but the youngest is 5’9”.
I’d caution against making assumptions about height (or worse, promising your kid that they will be a certain height or will outgrow others etc). |
Are you ok? You sound like an angry short person. |
I have a friend who is constantly talking about how “huge” her 7 year old is. He looks totally average to me lol. |