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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At what age did you realize your son was going to be super tall (6’3” or taller)?

We obviously have no idea yet but we have a 5 year old who is head and shoulders taller than his peers. He is currently 55 pounds and 50” tall.

Genetically - mom is in the 90th percentile for women (5’8”) but dad is probably average height (5’10”).

When did you know your son was going to be super tall or were you just surprised at the end? [/quote]

Strange post.  My daughter was that height in kindergarten and while she was on the taller side, "head and shoulders taller than" the other kids she was not.[/quote]

Op - I am going based off of growth chart from WHO:  https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/child-growth/growth-reference-5-19-years/height-for-age-(5-19-years)/hfa-boys-5-19years-per.pdf?sfvrsn=56a734fa_4

99th percentile for a 5 1/2 year old boy is 124cm or 48in tall. [/quote]

Are you going off a chart or was he physically towering over his peers?  Because those are not the same thing.

I'm a GS troop leader and I have to collect health data on our girls every year.   Our 1st year Daisies (kindergarteners) had 3 girls who were 50" and at least 6 who were 48"+.  As badly as you clearly want it to be true, your son is not some freakishly tall height for 5 year old in DC, but maybe Vanuatu is skewing the WHO data.[/quote]

That is quite tall though. My average height 8 year old is 52” and 55 lbs. in kindergarten she was well under 48” and she was average not just in stats, but in her class. [/quote]

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