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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought I read somewhere (DCUM, probably) that children tend to take after the parent who is an outlier in some way for their sex- so a short man or a tall woman.

One of my children was adopted and her birth parents are short, but it’s her birth dad who is very short at 5’4”, while her birth mom is 5’2.”  DD is 5’1”- her percentiles as a baby/young kid were like 10th percentile height and 95% for weight, but at 16, she is now like 25% height and 50th for weight.

My son rose to percentiles in the 90s as a toddler and has hovered between 90-95th percentile now at 14.  While I’m not tall at 5’3”, there’s height on his dad side with almost all close male relatives and one woman.[/quote]

I'm off the bottom of the charts, to the point where I was tested for growth hormone issues (I'm fine) and one of my kids has always been tall, one of my kids is average, and one is short-ish but not as short as me. All girls.

For every tendency you can find counter-examples.[/quote]

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