Is my daughter going to be a giant?

dbg
dbg Posts: 846
edited April 2008 in The bottom bracket
Just turned 11 and she's 5ft 4in! tallest in the school (boys inc.) Not sure why she's so tall as I'm 5' 10" and Mrs DBG is 5' 5", she's grown over an inch in the last 3 months. My worry is she's going to end up about 6' 6" and get bullied at high school. Does anyone know if there's a pattern to growth and if she's likely to suddenly slow down?

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  • robbie the roadie
    robbie the roadie Posts: 423
    Kids all grow at different rates. Height when young is not a great indicator of height at adult hood. It may well be she doesn't actually grow a lot more height wise just develop. I would have thought that over the next few years the other kids, especially the boys, will catch up and a lot will end up taller.
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    Is she any good at basketball?
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  • ColinJ
    ColinJ Posts: 2,218
    My sister was told by doctors that her two children would be very tall. Nothing much seemed to be happening until my nephew got to 13 a couple of years ago but since then he has shot up. I see him about 4 times a year and he is currently growing about 2 inches between visits! He is nearly my height now (6' 1") and so far shows no sign of stopping. The forecast was that his sister would be even taller than him :shock:, but she is a couple of years younger so it remains to be seen if the forecast was correct.

    My stepdaughter was much taller than all the other girls of her age from 3 to 14 and we thought that she was going to be very tall, but she suddenly stopped growing mid-teens and settled at a modest 5' 6" or so.

    So... I think it is possible to spot the likelihood of someone being tall, but hormones are weird things and anything can happen!
  • dbg
    dbg Posts: 846
    My sister was told by doctors that her two children would be very tall
    Why?
  • el_presidente
    el_presidente Posts: 1,963
    dbg wrote:
    My sister was told by doctors that her two children would be very tall
    Why?

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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,576
    Kind of related - did anyone see the BBC Breakfast programme this morning with that 3 year old kid who has a rare genetic order that means he'll never grow taller than your average 3 year old?

    It was like watching Alan Partridge - "isn't he tiny?" :shock:
  • azzerb
    azzerb Posts: 208
    I wouldn't worry too much. Everyone grows at a different rate. She's probably just grown early.

    I've not grown much since about 12, I was always one of the tallest and most built up until everybody else started to go through growth spurts.

    By the time she goes to senior school, (not long i don't think?), a few other girls should have cought up/come from different junior schools, and girls typically grow taller first, she won't be so tall relatively. So i really wouldn't worry, I'd be more worried about how much h/w she gets. :)
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  • Brains
    Brains Posts: 1,732
    I would not worry, we had a girl in our Scout group who at 12 was about 6' with long blond hair and at a push would have passed for mid 20's

    Now she is mid 20's and looks the same and never grew any more
  • markos1963
    markos1963 Posts: 3,724
    I seem to remember that an average indicator of adult height is to multiply the persons height at aged 2.5. So a child that is 3 foot high at 2.5yrs should in theory grow to 6 foot.
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  • jellybellywmb
    jellybellywmb Posts: 1,379
    andyp wrote:
    Kind of related - did anyone see the BBC Breakfast programme this morning with that 3 year old kid who has a rare genetic order that means he'll never grow taller than your average 3 year old?

    It was like watching Alan Partridge - "isn't he tiny?" :shock:

    I saw that and was cringing

    Great kid though.
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  • pneumatic
    pneumatic Posts: 1,989
    According to our medical advice, girls stop growing at puberty.

    So you have a choice: a very tall but sweet and lovely daughter or a slightly shorter one that bursts into tears all the time and looks daggers at you when you venture to crack a joke (or worse still, crack a cheek!).

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  • ColinJ
    ColinJ Posts: 2,218
    dbg wrote:
    My sister was told by doctors that her two children would be very tall
    Why?
    I didn't know about it at the time but when I commented about my nephew's recent growth spurt, she said she had been waiting for it. I've no idea why the doctors said what they said, but I'll ask her next time we speak.
  • dennisn
    dennisn Posts: 10,601
    Not trying to make light of the situation but I don't think that to many people would bullie
    a 6-6 person. I'd think twice about it, even if she is a girl. I have a 6-3 neice and 2, 6-10
    nephews. There don't get bothered much.

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  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    dbg wrote:
    Just turned 11 and she's 5ft 4in! tallest in the school (boys inc.) Not sure why she's so tall as I'm 5' 10" and Mrs DBG is 5' 5", she's grown over an inch in the last 3 months. My worry is she's going to end up about 6' 6" and get bullied at high school. Does anyone know if there's a pattern to growth and if she's likely to suddenly slow down?

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  • fly-pie
    fly-pie Posts: 5
    dbg wrote:
    Just turned 11 and she's 5ft 4in! tallest in the school (boys inc.) Not sure why she's so tall as I'm 5' 10" and Mrs DBG is 5' 5", she's grown over an inch in the last 3 months. My worry is she's going to end up about 6' 6" and get bullied at high school. Does anyone know if there's a pattern to growth and if she's likely to suddenly slow down?

    Don't worry, I was about that height when I was 11. I stopped growing when I was about 12/13 (I am 5'7'' now).

    Girls reach their full height years before boys do.
  • LazyBoycp
    LazyBoycp Posts: 320
    I wouldn't worry - my girlfriend was apparently not far off her adult height (5' 6") by the age of 10 or thereabouts.
  • nwallace
    nwallace Posts: 1,465
    Tallest Boy in my P7 class is 2nd tallest person I know, tallest is his brother, 3rd tallest his other brother.

    Tallest Girl in my class at P7 is a midget now.
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  • Tom Butcher
    Tom Butcher Posts: 3,830
    Isn't there some thing they can do with kids where they predict their final height by looking at the gaps between the bones in their fingers - at least I remember they did that with the short kid on Different Strokes. Actually wasn't the short kid on Different Strokes actually a very short adult - or did some one just tell me that once and I believed it ?
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  • Brian B
    Brian B Posts: 2,071
    My girl is only 5 this August and she is in size 8-9yr old clothes. She is the tallest in her nursery and most of the year above. I am tall and so is my better half and most of my family is tall as well.

    Its not just my family as I see some of my nephews friends are very tall also and most of them are approaching 6ft. Its just one of these things.
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  • magibob
    magibob Posts: 203
    Has she got big paws?

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