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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew almost a foot in… 7th grade? 8th grade? I forget which. By the end of that year I was 5’9”, just one inch shy of my eventual full-grown height of 5’10”.

What I remember most about that time is just being SO HUNGRY. Always. I’d eat two huge servings at dinner and polish off a sleeve of Oreos and then 20 mins later be hungry again. I was a total beanpole and just could not get enough calories. [/quote]

So you were 4'9 in 7th grade and grew a foot in 8th? That seems highly unlikely. Are your parents tall? You must have been under the 10th percentile before the growth spurt. [/quote]

Yeah, this sounds more like a case where a large growth spurt got massively exaggerated and became family legend that grew every year.

I have a 5th grader who is already 5’1” Kids who are 4’9” are pretty short by comparison. In 7th grade a kid who is 4’9” would be in 10th percentile. Jumping growth curves to the 97th percentile in one year is pretty much unheard of.

Even 6’5” boys don’t grow 12 inches in one year.[/quote]

Very true. It is easy to see how things get a little exaggerated though. One of my kids had a CRAZY growth spurt of about 9in over 18 months. Or at least it seemed a crazy to us, as our other 2 have grown more gradually. This was mostly sophomore year but if you count the summers before and after…. I could easily see the story becoming “I grew nearly a FOOT my sophomore year!!” someday when he is 40 years old 🤣 The whole thing was weird. He grew an inch every 2 months and it just kept going. Not a lot of growth before or after- just one weird burst. [/quote]

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