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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]

This is the weirdest post I have ever read.  An 11 year old who is 50 inches tall is not going to grow another 18 inches.  It doesn't matter if you are tall parents.

Why does her pediatrician expect her to start puberty at 13 or 14?  How would they have any idea?[/quote]

NP: my DD was 4’5”-4’6” at age 11. Grew to be 5’8”. Late bloomer who didn’t get first period until she was 15. That said, we didn’t expect her to be any particular height nor did our pediatrician ever predict anything. Our pediatrician could obviously tell (at that age) that it would be awhile before puberty though. I mean, she weighed like 65lbs or something like that, with no signs of development.

So it doesn’t sound that off base to me. Sounds like she is just guessing about the height as parents tend to do. Her DD clearly has a lot of growing to do if she is barely 4ft tall. [/quote]

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