Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My rising 8th grader is much taller than me. He's 5'11". I'm 5'6". He passed me up when he was 11.
He hit his puberty growth spurt early - started at the end of 5th grade when he was 11. He grew 8 inches and his voice changed over that year. It was insane - he has dark, horizontal stretch marks all up and down his back.
Dad is 6'1" but we have several men who are 6'4" on both sides of the family.
My younger son, who is only 10, is already 5'2" and has not hit puberty.
Boys who grow that early tend to stop growing early too. He’ll probably top out at 5’11”.
This is true for precocious puberty, but for boys that's before age 9. 11 is a normal age for puberty, though on the early side of normal. Either way, 5'11" is a perfectly respectable height, so if this is it, no big deal!