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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is OP. A couple of PPs requested I come back to the thread after seeing his doctor, so this is what transpired: she said he's just very short. His growth spurt hasn't happened yet but even when it does he'll probably be small.

I'm sad for him. I don't think anything is wrong with being short, but he does. He's already very shy and prone to depression, and I worry that always being smaller than everyone else will just make him feel worse.[/quote]

I have a 12 year old son who feels very short but is more or less fine for right now. His father is 6'4" but I'm only 5' so it's a mixed picture. DS is 5' right now.

He's recently gotten into wrestling and I've noticed a real advantage to that. There are a lot of short men in wrestling. These men don't seem remotely insecure or bothered by their height. I'm talking about the dads of current kid wrestlers. They wrestled in MS and HS and feel confident about themselves.

You could lookin into activities where short men are rewarded physically. Wrestling and gymnastics are two of those sports.[/quote]

He only wants to play basketball and has no skill at other sports. Sigh. [/quote]
I'm a PP whose son was 5'1.25" at 14.  My spouse and I have the same height as you and yours.   More than likely your son will be at least average height.  My DS was shorter than 5' at 12, and he hit puberty late -- like 15 to 16.  If your DS looks to be hitting puberty late, chances are he will be above 5'9".  But, yea, basketball may be out of the picture, unless he is a superstar.[/quote]

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