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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]70th %ile in the US is actually quite good, not too thin. This is not what the weight should be, it is the weight relative to other American kids. [/quote]

Perhaps your understanding of percentiles is incomplete? Percentiles are not grades. The only thing the 70th percentile for weight means is that 70% of kids weigh less and 30% weigh more. A kid could be at the 20th percentile for weight (i.e., 20% of kids weigh less, 80% weigh more) and still be fat, depending on height and muscle mass. Likewise, a kid could be at the 70th percentile for weight and still be too thin, again depending on height and muscle mass..[/quote]

I get that. My point is that ideal body weight is different. [b]The ideal weight for a child in the 95th%ile for height very well might be the 70th%ile[/b]. [/quote]

Or it might not. There is no way to know, just looking at the numbers. There is also no way for OP to know what the ideal weight is for OP's son, especially since OP's definition of "ideal weight" is "the weight that I think my son should have, so I'm going to control how much he eats".[/quote]

Yes, this misreading of percentiles is odd to me. I know tiny petite kids who are in the teens for both height and weight and are definitely skinny looking kids! I know tall lanky kids who are in the 80s and 90s (so not some big 25 percentile point spread that OP think is the way to indicate thinness).

Its just off. And weird.

But I think OP is a troll anyway, so there's that.[/quote]

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