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

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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?

+1. I wondered the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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. 😆

Exactly like my 16 year old son . He looks like a baby face.

His older brother grew late too.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m the one with the 6’ 14-year-old. This must be his peak growing year because I swear he looks taller day-by-day. His grandfathers both topped out at 6’, his dad is 6’1”, I am 5’10”, so I don’t see 6’4” or anything in his future.

You are really tall for a woman. Height of the mother is as important as father. Your son could easily be 6’4.

I agree. 5'10" puts PP at the 99.57th percentile of height for women. 6'4" is actually about the equivalent height for a man.

[Anonymous]

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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?

+1. I wondered the same.

Different poster. For my DS, his Dr ordered a bone scan and bloodwork at his 15 year check up because he still wasn’t showing any signs of puberty and wanted to rule out any other underlying issues.