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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I totally get why there are people on here saying "teach them to be happy how they are!" However it is dismissing the fact that young boys really and truly care about this. While we adults have the perspective to understand there are more important things, we shouldn't invalidate their feelings or the bullying/teasing they're experiencing. I can totally understand how this would make you feel helpless as a parent and wish there was something I could offer to make them feel better[/quote]

THANK YOU. I’m reading these responses and feel so bad for all these kids who have parents who totally invalidate them. Many of these people are expecting their teen boys to handle their insecurities like adults. And frankly even adults have silly insecurities. [/quote]

Do you have a short boy?  I posted earlier about my son who is a rising 9th grader and 4'11".  He has seen pediatric specialists. Being so short is hard on him. But with rare exceptions--like a kid who is growth-hormone deficient--there is pretty much nothing anyone can do to influence height, or to accelerate growth, despite the various claims being made on this thread.

So--yeah.  We do try to teach him to be happy, or at least accepting of his body, because he has the body he has right now and there is nothing he or anyone else can do about it.[b] That doesn't mean we dismiss him or ridicule him for feeling badly.  Of course we support him and empathize. But I am not sure what you expect parents in this situation to do, and letting kids wallow in this isn't healthy either. [/b]I'm proud of my son for how he holds his own with friends who are a foot taller than him, how he deflects the teasing and joking he experiences about being short, and how he does his best to accept himself for who he is even when that is not easy to do.[/quote]

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