growing up

I don't really worry about my son now, as I did when he was younger. He's always been a big boy height/length wise. Being born at 23 inches long, and by the time he was two years of age he was 38 inches tall... and now he's 6 years old and is 50 inches tall, which is about 4 foot 2. He's the tallest in his 1st grade class, but the youngest. When he was younger we had him checked because of the painful growing pains, he still gets them from time to time but the spaces in his joints are fine, and we aren't worring about it.

Sounds like your son should be playing basketball:) My oldest is the shortest of all my kids and his brothers always tease him. My youngest boy is the tallest of my boys. I don't really think that there is any problems with their height. MY youngest loves basketball and his height helps out, but there are kids on his team that tower over him. My 8 yr old daughter is almost as tall as I am (5 ft 4). She loves it.

My son is also 9 yrs old and he is 4ft 7inches tall…I don’t think there’s anything wrong with him and that its not normal in any way! His shoes are though a problem I know, he has overgrown his age group and now wears shoes the first size for teenagers…but I am OK with it, I want him to grow tall.

My son is growing really fast as well. He is only 7, but he will soon be taller than me. I am only 5'2", and my husband in 5'8". My son grows into and out of clothes and shoes so fast. Just the other day he came to me and said, "Momma, will you button my pant?" I thought, now why do I need to button your pants? He is 7 and has been buttoning his pants for sometime now. I bent down to button his jeans, and discovered they were almost too small for him to wear. I was having to button them because he could not get the button into the hole. These were jeans my mom got him for Christmas and already he was getting too big for them. So, Marketing07, I feel just as you do. Our boys grow up too fast. :(

[i]Hi marketing, you should be thankful for him..LOL! He will grow tall and do now worry about his feet size! LOL! I have no kids but when I was young, I was very much worried if I will not grow tall..I was always in the front line when I was in school. I was very short! LOL! and end up just 5ft2 inches this time, I wish I was a bit taller! LOL![/i]

I don't worry too much. My oldest is tall for her age, there is only one kid in her class that is taller than she is. My younges is almost the same size and same height as my middle child. And my middle child is a little tall for her age, even though she does have a very small and delicate bone structure. I am on the short side of life and my husband is pretty tall, so I figure my kids will at least be average. I'd love for them to be tall, but as long as they are happy and healthy I'll be glad.