My son hates being short.

Well he was always going to be short so you have to teach him be content with his lot and make sure he is an interesting kind person and he will fine.

tinder isn’t for under 18s so he should stop
obssesing. Personality and good grooming works just as well as being tall.

humour is an excellent way to break the ice with potential romance and honestly get him in some drama type stuff and he’ll learn a bit of charisma. Most movie stars are below 5’11.

also you could look up HGH shots but he might be slightly too old.

Most of the guys in our family are around 5'8".

Except my 2nd brother who is about 5'4". And his wife is a few inches shorter. So their son is also quite short, maybe 5'4" at most.

At the other end of the scale is my 3rd brother's son who got his grandfather's genes and is about 6'4". His other son is the standard 5'7".

To see my 3 nephews together is quite striking as it's the tall one that is awkward and the 2 shorter ones much more socially able, talkative, confident. Maybe because they realised early that they have to work harder to be noticed?

Are Welsh people short???

Declan Donnelly

He will likely have a growth spurt in the next couple of years - a couple of my son's friends were quite short at his age but had a growth spurt a bit later than their peers and ended up on a par with mates. Please reassure him that being short doesn't mean girls won't like him. One of the most popular boys in my year was short and the girls loved him - he was confident, funny, intelligent and kind. These qualities are far more important.

If it helps, when I was 13 I had a crush on the shortest boy in the class who was probably just over five foot. A lot of the “cool girls” who had boyfriends were actually with guys who were quite short. I remember some of them saying it was easier and nicer to kiss boys when they were a similar height to them / smaller! So I would tell your son not to worry. Girls at that age really don’t care about height.

There is really no need to go to GP, he is probably a normal height for his age and will likely shoot up in the next year or so as you say. Most boys at fourteen still haven’t reached their max height. Taking him to GP will only make him more self conscious and is totally unnecessary.

if it wasn’t his height he was worrying about it would b something else.

My dd is 14 so I know lots of 14 year old boys and the difference in them is vast op. One of the boys from her primary school was the oldest in the class and the shortest in the whole class and was often mistaken for being way younger. We saw him recently and he’s still tiny and his mum said he’s having a terrible time of it as he’s so self conscious so he’s started drama classes and has been working loads on his self worth and confidence, he’s way smaller than your son.
lots of her old classmates have shot up over the last 6/9 months ( year 9 ) and there are a few boys around your son’s height, some just develop later than others.

just a tip- my ds is 22 now and has autism and is literally obsessed with height to the point of installing a stadiometer in the house and he’s discovered by accident that Nike Air Max add a good 1.5 inches to his height, he’s 6ft 1 so don’t know why he’s so obsessed. He’s got a huge friendship group and there are boys of all heights. The one who attracts all the ladies is one of the shortest. He’s just a lovely lad and that’s all that matters.

Absolutely nothing 🤷🏻‍♀️. I was just wondering how you knew their growth was down to swimming and basketball.
My really really short daughter swims 4 times a week!

I’m 5’6’’ my dh is 5’7.5’’

my 3 ds are 5’8 5’9 and 6’

They are in the 20’s now and height has been irrelevant in their success in relationships.
DS 2 hated being small but he got over it.
One thing I was always worried about was small man syndrome, anger/jealousy of others but I think because we spoke about it they were aware. Size is predetermined so nobody should feel superior or inferior because of it.

What? I live in Cardiff! People aren’t shorter here!

That’s science, folks!

I have a boy the same age, he's obsessed with his height, literally stands back to back with me daily to see if he's my height yet! He's always been below average height. So, I feel your pain.
Unlike girls, boys can have tremendous growth spurts and often later, sometimes at 16+. My nephew was below average height until he hit 16 then grew 5 inches in one year! He was still growing at age 23 and grew to well over 6ft. So, I'd say it's too early to worry or get advice - it also depends what stage he's at puberty wise.

I am a teacher. The height range of boys aged 13-15 is huge! I’ve seen boys who were very small shoot up in a few months. My son’s best mate was about 5ft 2 at 14 and the first to get a girlfriend. Luckily with your respective heights your son will almost certainly be in the normal range of height for a British man.

Swimming and basketball improve the overall body posture and benefit bone health in children. Why not to use all the tools in the box? What's wrong with that?

Lots of these responses whilst attempting to be helpful just show the level of height prejudice there is aimed at men particularly. Reassuring the op that her son might grow to 6 foot because your own son did is part of the issue, he may not, some men don’t, and thats fine. The push to say don’t worry he surely won’t be a small man, he’ll grow ! ( the horror!! Sarcasm in case it’s not obvious!)

The pressure for men to be a certain height is as ridiculous as the pressure for women to be a size 8 and should be seen in the same way.

Encouraging sport and physical fitness will help him feel self pride that isn’t related to his height. I have several smaller men in my family, they are all wonderful kind men with beautiful partners, good careers and fulfilling lives.
Reassure your son but I would avoid talk of doctors and “you’ll grow” and focus on building his self esteem with the wonderful things about him that are nothing to do with his height.

Also agree with this.

I know it usually goes by the parents’ height, but my mum was 5’ 1” and my dad was 5’ 7”. I am 5’ 7”, so a reasonable height for a woman. My sister was 5’ 6”. My brother is just a shade off 6’. So our short parents produced 3 offspring who ended up above average height. It does happen! And of the 3 of us, my brother was the one who shot up at the last minute. Until he was about 13, he was one of the smallest in his class, whereas my sister and I grew more consistently.

I never liked the tall lads, I always fell for the smaller ones.
A lot of shorter lads I knew had girlfriends, it certainly didn’t disadvantage them.

Not sure, but it’ll all boil down to women being cunts

I did worry about my son’s height too. I even researched growth hormones. My son is 15 next month and since last summer, he grew 5 inches

I probably should know this, but what does Andrew Tate say about height?

I read Maria Sharapova's autobiography, she said as a teenager she would do stretches everyday in attempt to grow taller, which she did.

FWIW, my dh (he is about 5ft8) is only about an inch taller than me, and his height never crossed my radar when we first started dating, and since then it has never affected our relationship.

Erm, of course it’s relevant?!

So in summary, everyone feels that height is nothing but a number whilst simultaneously hoping that their DS will be at least 5'10, knowing their exact height at various ages, what centile they're in and will be asking the GP how to make them grow more. Then blaming Andrew Tate.

I’ve never been in a relationship with a man taller that 5ft 7in - lots of us prefer shorter guys.