..to think that a 5 year old does not have the same size head as an adult?

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I have rather a large head, struggle to find a hat that fits etc. So find the idea absurd. As a child surely my head would be dragging on the floor?!

Mine forgets what he's doing halfway through Maisie!

I was told about it in on a child development course years ago and promptly burst out laughing. I just cannot accept it.

Please don't wear a Mac and shades as you do Tizzy

Maybe I have a monkey too, except I think he's asleep. Or drunk.

That is why toddlers fall over. They are top heavy!

(not coke)

My 2 yo has a cozy Thomas hat which is 3-7 or something like that. Fits me lovely!!!!

I have a massive head. A milliner told me so and I have to buy MEN'S sunhats.

Id like a smaller head then I'd wear many hats (at seperate times). Be never thought about wearing men's hats. How daft.

Can't imagine that either op, my dd has such a wee face at 7.

I suppose the jaw line and nose/ears keep growing so the face fills out until a certain point?

My name is Wallington and I am a knitter (sob)...

Yep, standard sizing charts show little difference between a 5 year old and adult size.

I reckon the space for poo and fart jokes gradually gets used up for Other Things (which may be a good thing or a bad thing)

Wallington? BL**day spell check...

If you look at younger children, you may notice the back of their head "goes out" compared to an adult's head, that and a smaller face are how come the head circumference can be the same whilst the head "looks" smaller.

My sister and I had the same (slightly larger than average) size in school hats aged 4 and 6, and mine did me all the way through school (was able to change the hatband for senior school).

but DD's cycle helmet from when she was 7 doesn't fit her any longer - she's 13.

We must all be used to 4 year olds looking the same, so accept their bobble-headedness. Perhaps it's perspective - they're so far down that we don't notice the strange proportion. By the time they're tall enough to look us in the eye it's all evened out.

Massive heed apparently here too. Women's "one size" hats = rubbish.

My riding hat from age 9 still fits (obviously don't use it) I'm now in my 40s

I have a very small head. I get my glasses from the teen range at Specsavers because adult women's ones are always too big.

I have to wear hard hats at work and if I am supplied one that has been worn by someone else, I always have to take the adjuster thing right down.

I hadn't to buy DS an adults S hat when he was 5. I can wear his hats if I need to. DH has difficulties getting hats because no one makes them large enough!

I don't believe this. My children have smaller heads than me and mine is pretty average in terms of adult heads.

Heads do definitely grow between the age of 5 and adult, but way slower in proportion to the rest of the body.

Take a photo of a 5 year old standing next to an adult. On a computer image editing programme select the 5 year old and grow it to the size of the adult. The head will look weird and huge. A child doubling in height will grow the size of their head by only about 20%.

Yes the bones are fused but that doesn't mean that they can't grow

Children's faces get bigger as they grow. The nose jaw and cheekbones get wider, everything gets longer. The top and back of the head, not so much.

We are a huge head family, too. DS 2 was off the charts with his monstrous head.

I wear a child's size ski helmet.

My son is 2.5 so not getting of adult head proportions but is currently looking a bit bobble headed. Only slightly. He's due a growth spurt shortly though (he's been eating like a horse over the last while) so I guess his body will catch up a little soon.

I generally do think kids often look slightly bobble headed though. Or is it just me?

The skull part of the head is practically full size by age 7 this is because the brain is full size by this age., however the lower jaw and frontal part for head continuing growing the lower jaw upto ages 18-20 for males female jaws stop growing earlier, in a baby the head is 25% of height in a adult about 12_13%

As hat sizes measure skull part there is very little if an difference between a 7-10 year old and an adult.