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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son was always the one sitting in the front row for class photos. He was the second from shortest kid in class all through elementary school. I always had to buy clothes one size less than his peers. He was born three weeks early so I thought that was why and accepted him in my heart as he was. I just kept giving him his vitamins and giving him a great diet. He played outside a lot too. By the time he was 19, he was 5'11". He's still growing too. Dad is 5'8" and I am only 5'4". Keep giving him his vitamins and a very healthy clean diet. [/quote]
Oh, ffs. Your son did not get to be 5’11” because of vitamins and his healthy clean diet. he grew to that height because that was his genetic potential. All you did was manage not to stunt his growth, which is a pretty low bar. [/quote]

My DS who has always been a “poor eater” and really doesn’t eat much, loves junk food when he does actually eat + is so skinny, grew and grew and ended up on the far tall end of the family gene pool. His younger brother, the “good eater” who eats healthy and lots of it, never has liked much junk food- looks like he will end up on shorter end of the family gene pool. They both take a standard multivitamin (when they actually remember) , and neither has medical issues.

Absent a medical issue or outright malnutrition, height is mostly genes and luck of the draw.

I think it is wonderful to encourage a healthy diet etc and we all should- but it really doesn’t have much relation to height. [/quote]

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