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Filed under: Development/Milestones: Babies, Gadgets
I'm only 5' 7", but since my husband is 6' 2", I thought my sons would have a fairly good chance of making the basketball team when they got older.
However, the height prediction chart at Parent Center now has me a little concerned about where I'm going to find pants long enough for the buggers.
Using the child's gender, age (the chart is only able to predict on children ages 2-12), current height, weight, and the height of each of the parents, the table makes an educated guess as to how tall the child will be in adulthood.
The site notes that based on the formula, there is a 50 percent chance that your boy's full-grown height will be within 0.8 inches (above or below) of this prediction, and a 90 percent chance that it will be within 2.1 inches. For girls the range will be within 0.7 inches (above or below) of this prediction with a 90 percent chance it will be within 1.7 inches.
It is also noted that while parents' heights are a good predictor of a child's adult height, heredity only accounts for about 70 percent of what goes into deciding how tall someone will be. The other 30 percent comes from environmental factors, like eating habits and exercise patterns. And sometimes a child will just surprise everyone and turn out much taller or shorter than either parent.
I'm surprised that my son who was born six weeks early and weighed only 5# 15 oz., looks like he's going to be the biggest one of the lot. Six feet, six inches! I sure hope the predictor is a couple inches generous because.......YIKES.
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2-12-2011 @ 9:56AM
Linda said...I'm 6 ft 2 and my sons dad is also 6 ft 2. My son was being mistaken for a 5 year old when he was only 3. Since tall genes run in the family I thought it was only natural that my son would inherit it. Be glad that you have two boys and not two girls LOL....I have 4 brothers and a sister but my sister took after my mum who is only 5 ft 8 whereas I took after my dad and it's not good considering it's hard to find shoes that fit. What I would do to be short like everyone else.
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11-09-2007 @ 11:24AM
Ann Adams said...Only 5'7"? I used to barely make 5'3" and I've shrunk since.
My youngest son weighed in at barely 3 lbs. He's now almost 35, 6' and in the neighborhood of 200.
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11-09-2007 @ 11:25AM
Ethel said...Talk about yikes, if my oldest remains his present height at age 3 he will be 6' 10" at age 18. That means he may certainly grow another 2 inches after that as both my husband and I did after we were 18. Tall is good in my family, but I know just being 6' 6" was really tough on my brother - standard beds were a little short, he had to remember to duck often, and getting size 14 shoes (15s before the Navy broke his toes) were constant obstacles.
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11-09-2007 @ 11:42AM
Courtney said...Where did you people go to get the chart and results? I can't seem to find it.
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11-09-2007 @ 2:06PM
Tamyu said...Ouch. My son comes up at 4'10" at 18 - So I don`t think this thing is being particularly generous with the inches.
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11-09-2007 @ 3:33PM
aprilw said...My mom used a height prediction formula she got in a magazine when we were all babies. It came within half an inch for all of us (my sister's was exactly on). And we are all vastly different heights. She wrote the predicted heights in our baby books just so she wouldn't lose them to see how correct they were.
I showed her that Parent Center site you mention here a couple years ago and she said it was similar, but not as detailed. For the formula she did (before home computers were around) she thinks it also included both parents weights at the time of birth. She wished she still had the formula (she had just written down the results) so that we could have tried it with my kids too.
Interesting anyway. I've done the Parent Centre one a couple times for my older son and it came out last time at 6' 4" and this time at 6' 3". I figure it has to do with whether he has just had a growth spurt or not! This is the first time I have done it for my younger son (just turned 2) and his came out at 6' 2".
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11-09-2007 @ 3:38PM
aprilw said...And Angie, I meant to say "only 5' 7""?! What are you on about? :)
That's on the tall side for a woman! A 5'7" woman will be passing on some tall genes on to her kids!
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11-09-2007 @ 4:51PM
Angie Felton said...I must run with a tall crowd, I'm always the shortest of the group!
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11-09-2007 @ 5:40PM
Anita said...Hmm, this chart says my 7 year old daughter will be 5'4". When she was 2, she was supposed to be 6 feet according to the chart. Not sure which one to believe.
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11-09-2007 @ 9:55PM
David Robinson said...As the above comments show, using parental height is not particularly accurate. I have two daughters both of whom were going to be 6 foot tall on measurements taken at 2 and a half. One is 5 foot 11 inches while the other 5 foot 4 inches.
One can estimate adult height much more accurately by x-raying the wrist and hand to determine bone maturity.
David Robinson
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