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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is 4’8 considered tall? My ds is 4’11 at 8 and he’s tall but not extraordinary and the girls overall seem to be taller than or equal to boys at this age.[/quote]

You do not have an 8 year old, or you don’t know his height. 99th percentile at 8.5 years is 54.5” and 59” is way off the charts. And for girls, 99th is 54.8”. If your child was really 4’11” you’d be at an endocrinologist and would know these things.[/quote]

Right. My 8 year old DD is 55" tall and at least 97th percentile. We get comments all the time that she's sooooooooooo tall. She's young for her grade and taller than most kids in her class except a couple that were held back.

I would be concerned about her weight, OP. My DD is 55" tall and around 80 lbs and [b]technically overweight per BMI[/b] (for whatever stock you put in that). I can't imagine her 20 lbs heavier. [/quote]

Just to clarify here, she is not technically overweight if she is 8 yrs 6 months. She is that close to the cutoff -- a few months makes the difference between overweight and healthy categories for her.

Of course, you and your pediatrician know her best, and of course you don't need to put her exact age here! I'm just noting this because parents sometimes read very closely and extrapolate to their own children.

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Not to split hairs, but here is the CDC BMI calculator that indicates overweight, obesity, severe obesity.

https://www.cdc.gov/healthyweight/bmi/calculator.html

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Yes. And I am honestly at a loss as to what hairs you think you are splitting, but maybe I am misreading you.

Here is the calculation [i]from your link[/i] for a girl at 55 inches and 80 pounds at 8 years 6 months old. I am highlighting for clarity.

[img]https://i.imgur.com/P6c5R71.jpg[/img][/quote]

[b]OP’s daughter is 100 pounds, not 80. [/b]

I think I weighed 80 pounds in middle school and 100 pounds in high school. 100 in 3rd grade is heavy.[/quote]

There's the problem, I believe you missed part of the conversation. You can expanded the post thread by clicking on the "click to show earlier posts" tab at the top of the post. I am highlighting in the screengrab below.

[img]https://i.imgur.com/Y4zCrYn.jpg[/img][/quote]

Ahh ic. I have the opposite problem of having skinny kids. My DD weighs 46 pounds and is about 4 ft tall. She is in first grade. Even if she grew 5 in, I can’t imagine her weighing double.

I believe pp who thinks her DD is overweight at 80 pounds. She probably isn’t technically overweight but she probably looks chubby next to her classmates the same age. Our school has no fat girls, like none. [/quote]

I'm PP with the 80 pounder lol. She actually doesn't look chubby at all, but she's not a stick. She's very active and has really muscular legs. She doesn't have a belly at all and her face doesn't look chubby.[/quote]

I didn’t read all the responses. I thought pp said that you were saying 80 pounds was overweight.

I’m not even sure why I am posting on this thread. My kids are not the same age as OP and I have very thin children. My daughter and all her friends are very thin.[/quote]

OK?[/quote]

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