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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is the youngest in her grade, small for her age (<10th percentile), and a late bloomer re puberty so she doesn't really stand a chance.  She plays rec soccer and swims for fun.

She loved basketball as a sport, but the cutoff for the more competitive league is literally the day after her birthday, making her the absolute youngest and smallest.  At 11 yo, that makes her 50" tall playing against kids who are 5'9" or even taller.  She's roughly the same size as a tall third grader and the other players are adult sized.  It's just not fun.  When she first tried out a few years ago, her birthday being two days later and playing down a league would have made all the difference.  But the late puberty probably would have pushed her to drop it by now anyways.

Just for reference re young for her grade, she'll be 13 for the beginning of freshman year of highschool.  And her pediatrician expects her to start puberty as a 13-14 yo.  We're not a short family so she'll likely end up around 5'8" but not for a long while.[/quote]

How is she going to be 5”8” when at 11 years old she’s like 4 feet tall?  [/quote]
Late bloomer.  The girls who are tall are all well into puberty.  She's not close yet.[/quote]

I am a 5-10 female who went through puberty late.  Just as an FYI the way this looked for me is I was relatively tall all during childhood and then during that phase when other girls had gone through puberty and I hadn't yet, I more just fit in with them.  The girls who were their final height of 5-3 at age 11-12, I was their height too.  For a couple years, I actually kind of blended in.  However, I was not 4 -2.  Then I sprouted and shot past all of them.   [/quote]

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