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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She does have to watch out for people, including predatory men, treating her as older than her age because they assume being taller=being older. [/quote]

This is an excellent point. I have seen a college guy mistake a  barely-into-puberty seventh grader for a college freshman, solely because she was tall. 
You really have to keep an eye on who she’s around. 
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OP here - yes, we've run into this.  She is confident and comfortable talking with adults and even in 5th and 6th grade, new (friendly) people we'd meet would ask what high school she went to.  I'm certainly not a helicopter dad, but given my own experiences growing up, I know how much boys can be idiots (I'm in that Venn diagram).  I'm not an over-protective father (that's a lie, yes I am, and I fake it the best I can) but I always have my radar up.  I trust her explicitly, but I would rip a man limb from limb if he put his hands on my daughter.  Sorry, this went to a weird place, but yes, height and age don't always correlate.

I appreciate everyone's advice and personal experiences.  I'm just trying to be a good dad and I don't have a lot of tall women friends to talk to where it wouldn't be an awkward conversation :)  Thanks again everyone![/quote]

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