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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Central Americans, Latinos, Mexicans—yes. Demo has brought height average down in the US[/quote]

My son's high school is 50 percent Hispanic, mostly from Central America.  Yet as a 5'7" kid, he appears shorter than most of the kids I see him among there.  Most of them look to be 5'8" or 5'9".[/quote]

Central Americans also tend to have early puberty and stop growing sooner. Your kid will likely still grow. We saw that with my kid who was shorter than most at 13/14.  He was 5’4” at start of Freshmen year and 5’11” at HS graduation (18) and 6’0” at Thanksgiving break this Fall (19). He may have another inch or so if he follows other males in our family.

My 16-year old just got to 5’8”, baby face, hadn’t filled out. He’s just starting to grow.  Kids that towered over him when he was a 5’3” Freshmen no longer do. His bone growth is about 2 years behind. He will likely grow until age 20.  I’m a female and grew an inch in college.[/quote]

^ similar we used to get outright mean or strange comments about our kid’s height in late elementary and middle school.  And now at 17 and 19 they are much taller than the adults’ children that were making those comments at the time.  For some reason talking down about a male’s height is allowed and yet if someone talked about a girl’s weight (or boys) or other body part in the same manner it would be cancel culture. [/quote]

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