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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hard to know.  I have a son who was always off the growth chart (99+) and at 18 is 6-5.  We are tall though.  While it's not all about parental height, it's a lot about parental height.  But your kid could be an outlier and much taller in the end than your own heights would have predicted.  Your height of 5-7 also indicates some height somewhere in your family.

The general thing I have seen with families I know is if there is a short mom, the sons typically don't get that tall even if dad is tall.  I think maternal height and maternal family height is more of a predictor of a potentially super tall boy.

Cue the stories of 5-1 mom with 6-4 son.[/quote]
I think this is largely true.

I'm super short, like 5'; DH is tall 6'3", and DS is ~5'11", while DD is ~5'6". Both are still growing (due to late puberty), but DD will probably be a lot taller than average compared to DS.

DH's dad is average height, but his mom is tall, as was his maternal grandfather.

My dad is "tallish" for our ethnicity, while my mom is super short. My brother is super short.[/quote]

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