is it true that kids seem to be five to six inches taller than there parents?
367882
Nope... my daughter is 5'7".\nI am 5'11" and her dad is 6'2".  Every case is different.
744247
No one is finished fully growing until they are 21.  There is potential that you could still be growing.  Since your parents are shorter, you probably won't grow too much taller naturally.  As for pills...are you talking about growth hormone?  That usually helps more in kids who haven't had their epiphyseal plates attached yet, which you have.  As far as I am concerned growth capsules won't work at your age.
193533
Gravity in Asian countries (middle Earth) is higher than other countries. Thus "compressing" the human body to sustain the gravity force. If you want your kid to be tall, send them to oversea when young. They will be taller.\n\nOf course, the DNA plays a vital role as well in determining your height.
1118215
Why?\nThey are both at the ages where their form will change dramatically\nthey are both growing, and the taller the child will be the leaner they will tend to be.\nOne of my sons was always quite thin (not thin as in "too" thin, but *lean*)  but has now filled out to be 6' 2. Another of my sons is growing with the identical pattern and these can tend to have more growing pains too.\nAs long as your child eats regularly and a good balanced diet then don't worry. Don't go shoving junk food down them. How we eat as children comes back and either cares for us as adults or dogs us as in illness etc...A childs diet is essential to be balanced now, for a healthy body when older.
761436
5ft 6 according to this
844810
They might be between 4.5-6 inches which is the average but it all depends on their height mainly.
667425
I do think you are tall.I'm not sure if you will keep growing but I do know one of my male cousins stayed at 5'8" until he was 18-20 when he grew a few more inches to 6'.
389803
no specific answer, but the previous one cannot be true, as if this were the case, over time men and women would be of the same height... traits have binary states, they either exist or they don't, so you could get either the height of your father or mother or someone else in your ancestory, no averaging.
324759
For a five year old boy in the U.S. the average height is 43 inches. \n\nThere is a chart showing height for age for boys 2 - 20 years here:\nhttp://heightandweightchart.blogspot.com/2005/02/child-growth-chart-height-boys-2-to-20.html\n\nYou can see percentiles for every age. The 50th percentile (average) is in bold.
535075
no, everyone in my 8th grade class was over 7'4. your son may have a growth deficiency. \n\nOF COURSE HE"S TALL. i'm hoping you asked this as a joke.
314436
Sorry, girls usually stop growing about two years after they start their period because it is the end of puberty. \n\nYou probably won't grow much more. How tall are your parents? That makes a difference. If you're worried, ask your pediatrician to refer you to a specialist (endocrinologist) who can order a bone age and see if you still have time to grow or if your bones are already fused.\n\nSince you've included your parents' heights, your chances of growing are even smaller. People have a genetic potential which can be estimated using parents' heights. For girls, you subtract 5 inches from the father's height and average it with the mothers. Therefore, you'd average 5' with 4'11" and get 4'11 1/2", so you might have another 1/2 in to an inch to grow, but that's about all you can expect.
603879
I am southeast asian and yes I am short, BUT, I've seen plenty of tall Vietnamese over 5'10". I think it has a lot to do with the amount of food. Southeast asian countries are still very poor. Not much food means you can't grow as tall. Korea and Japan use to be known to have short people but since there economy is better people can eat better and the younger generation are as tall as everyone else. I'm taller than my dad (I'm not 2nd generation) and I bet my kids will be taller than me. So eventually southeast asians will be the same height as everyone else. The only truly short peole in the world are the pygmies which live in the west african forest.
68011
Its just like this one....except everyone is a few inches taller.....
303219
6'5", but was listed at 6"6
504563
I am 6 5 ft and I remember time I grew the most was at age of 18, 19 when I was playing basketball a lot. I don't know how old are you and if this helps but you never know.
218986
I'm 5'-3" and my wife is 5'-7".\nWe were in love long before we ever consciously observed that I am shorter than she is.\nWhat I mean is, I don't recall thinking about it as a factor (at least on my part).\nWhen we were taking our wedding photos, the photographer seemed to think it was weird, and kept trying to find ways to make me look at least as tall as her, but she (my wife) was like "It's reality, I'm taller and it doesn't bother us, so just take the pictures."\nI don't even think about it unless someone else mentions it, but I really don't think that our respective heights had anything at all to do with our being together.\nI know that some guys do have a complex about their height, so maybe its an ego thing for some of them, or possibly they are just trying to "breed for height", so their kids don't end up short like they are.\nPersonally, I wouldn't want to be taller (except once in a while when I'm reaching for something on a high shelf). God made me the perfect size for riding bucking horses, and I'd probably have been killed by now if I'd been built any taller.\nI think it's probably just that the majority of men are actually taller than the majority of women, so when you see a couple that is the other way around, its more noticeable.
881356
Well, 5' 11" is the normal height. Don't be worried.