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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When they pass mom’s height early like 10 or 11, generally they will be shorter as adults (early growth spurt and generally stops growing early as well. That was the case with my oldest son, younger one is later to puberty and will probably end up with the taller genes (5’1-5’2 in sixth grade with zero signs of puberty and always has tracked 85th-ish percentile). We have a mix of genes/heights in the family. [/quote]

Or they’re going to be really tall and have always been really tall… or mom is short… this is a silly take, PP.[/quote]

I mean it’s pretty general knowledge in pediatrics that earlier puberty generally equates to shorter adult height, so I wouldn’t say it’s a “silly take.” Of course there are always going to be exceptions. [/quote]

I guess you missed my point that a son surpassing his mother in height at a relatively young age is not necessarily a reliable indicator of early puberty.  [/quote]

Sure, there are kids who just have always been/will always be super tall (generally with two excessively tall parents). But if a boy is taller than 5’4 or so (average female height) at 10 or 11, he almost always has started a pubertal growth spurt (especially since in the cases we’re discussing mom is not tall - even if dad might be). Despite some people’s misunderstanding, boys do not get their “height genes” strictly from their father’s side. Just telling you what we see in practice quite reliably. [/quote]

Internist here, so I know little about puberty, but I have a foggy memory that kids experience a larger magnitude growth spurt if they have a more prolonged duration of puberty - is that right? As a parent, my observation is that late onset puberty tends correlate with longer duration puberty than early onset, but that might not be reality. [/quote]

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