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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Uh my son loves to be recognized for his height.  Can't you make this a positive, not a negative?[/quote]

My son is the same. He thinks it is an awesome compliment when someone comments on how tall he is.

OP, are you embarrassed about his height and passing it on to him?

Most teen boys are proud of being tall.[/quote]

+1. My DS hit his growth spurt early, and was almost six feet at 14. Now 16 and just hitting 6’1’’.  He’s probably almost done— his pediatrician thinks an inch or two more at most. He got a lot of “you are so tall”.  Is it boring and predictable?  Yes.  Is it offensive or upsetting? I don’t see it. He grew up knowing he was going to be tall, because of his height at age 2.  We made a point of him understanding that height is an asset for a man.  Pointing the body language out on TV, looking at heights for CEOs, etc. of helping him realize that for a boy, being tall is easier than being short.  That it was nice to be one of the few boys who was not shorter than all the girls. Of making sure he had blue jeans that fit properly, even the winter he went through three sizes in one winter.

I thought this was going to be about adults make hurtful or inappropriate remarks to a bald kid undergoing chemo, or a kid with Tourette’s or Down’s syndrome, or an intellectual disability.

OP, if your kid has a huge issue with being tall, it’s because you have made it an issue.  And yes— it can be though to be an unusually tall girl. DS has a friend who is a girl in his grade who has always been taller than him, and the mean girls were awful.  But as unfair as it is, society views tall men and tall women differently.

TL;DR: get a handle on your own issues about being tall and don’t hand them down to your kid. [/quote]

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