To think my 2 year 10 month old is tall for his age?

[Hamandcucumber]

He’s 100cm. Whenever we’re out and about people seem to think he’s older, like 3 and a half, maybe older.
His grandad (my dad) is 6’4, but his own dad is only about 5’9, as is his other grandad. I’m 5’7 and one of the male cousins on my dad’s side is 6’7…so I guess he may be taking after my dad’s side at the rate he’s going.

Yep, my ds was a similar height at a similar age, and we used to get similar comments. He had to play full price for Diggerland before he was 3 because he was more than 1m tall!

He’s still tall,,5’8” at 12, but I come from a family of tall people and DH is not short @ 6’2”.

Can you plot his height in his red book?

My DD is about an inch shorter at 3 years 1/4 but I think she's quite petite.

14yo DS is 6ft 6. I wish I could remember how tall he was at 2. Off the chart certainly.

Its on the taller side, my DS is 3 in 6 weeks and is 104cm tall. I do feel that strangers think he's an older child based on his appearance.

I guess he’ll likely be tall then, people just seen to assume he should be more forward than he is.

@Hamandcucumber

I guess he’ll likely be tall then, people just seen to assume he should be more forward than he is.

Yep. Prepare for that to continue.

He’s just over the 91st centile. He’ll probably be tall, but not enormous. DS1 always tracked just over 99.5th centile is 6’4 at 15. DS2 was 97cm at 2yrs 10 months and is 5’5” at 13.

Yes hes tall, and?

I have this too, my DS is 2 years 8 months and is taller than a lot of 3/4 year olds and people often speak to him expecting him to have understanding/be able to speak in sentences which he can't really yet

• Hamandcucumber I guess he’ll likely be tall then, people just seen to assume he should be more forward than he is.

Yep. Prepare for that to continue*

This. It’s actually quite annoying. I have 2 DDs, both under 4, one is 91st centile and the other 98th. People always expect them to be more forward than they are. Even though both are actually quite ahead in their speech, emotionally they’re very much their ages and tantrum when overtired or upset like a child their age would and it annoys me when family especially say ‘shouldn’t they have grown out of that by now’. I have to keep pointing out their ages.

@Babynames2

* Hamandcucumber I guess he’ll likely be tall then, people just seen to assume he should be more forward than he is.

Yep. Prepare for that to continue*

This. It’s actually quite annoying. I have 2 DDs, both under 4, one is 91st centile and the other 98th. People always expect them to be more forward than they are. Even though both are actually quite ahead in their speech, emotionally they’re very much their ages and tantrum when overtired or upset like a child their age would and it annoys me when family especially say ‘shouldn’t they have grown out of that by now’. I have to keep pointing out their ages.

It was me who said “Prepare for this to continue”. He’s not only tall (was tracking 91st centipede all his life until a couple of years ago, when he leaped to 98th), but the eldest in his school year (birthday in the first week of Sept). All his life teachers, sports coaches, Cub leaders etc have tried to make him a leader. He’s so not. He’s a brilliant team member and a loyal follower, he’s not a leader. Due to his height, I’ve had a lady approach me in a cafe on a weekday when he was 3, because she wanted to ask me about homeschooling, assuming that this is why my apparently “school age” child was not at school; I’ve had the parents of the opposition stop a cricket match claiming he couldn’t possibly that age group; He’s not been able to go to a birthday party for bring too tall for the soft play place it was at; people complained Scott the “8 or 9 year old” boy in the ladies changing rooms at the swimming baths when he was 6, equally I was not happy to send my 6 year old into the men’s by himself in a different part of the building, and I have had no end of difficulty buying him age appropriate clothes.

Height can be measured and compared to the centile charts but there's nothing you can do about it. It's also not an issue for being unreasonable though, how could it be? How are you expecting the votes to work

my DS was 92cm on his 2nd birthday, so probably about the same adjusted for age.

At 15 he is now 5 foot 11, so tallish, but not super tall.

I’ve got a tall one (over 91st centile) and a short one. Advantages and disadvantages for both. On balance probably worse for my shorty (who was on the 0.4th centile at age 2).

I remember the health visitor being quite rude at DS2’s 2-year check, pointing at DC1 and saying (very crossly) ‘why isn’t he at school!’ - um because he’s only 3? She was also rude about DS2 being tiny though, so she was just a rude woman in general.

I’m also aware that at age 11 now my big child can’t go in playgrounds for children up to age 12, for example, as people would assume he’s 13 or so, but then he doesn’t want to really.

We had some fun with the little one, particularly when he first started school and was a good reader. Strangers thought he was some kind of toddler genius. As he’s my last it’s also an advantage to me that my children haven’t ‘grown up’ too quick. But it’s a big disadvantage for my shorty in sports, although he’s quick over a short distance.

My tall one is very confident, so not the issues less confident tall children might have. It’s also worse for the tall girls who look so grown up even though they are at primary school.

It's tall, but not extremely so. DD2 was 99 cm at just turned 2. Also very articulate, huge vocab and full sentences. It did give people unrealistic expectations.

This has got to be the weirdest AIBU ever.

Mine were the same. DS1 slightly taller than DS 2. I'm 6ft though so it was to be expected.

DS1 is 9 now and is in age 13 clothes

I have 2 dds both tall from early on. My youngest is 5 and 126cm tall and my oldest is 10 and 5ft 2. She not far off my height I’m 5ft 5. Everyone thinks she’s a lot older than she is. People think my youngest is around 7

@HappyDaysToCome

I’ve got a tall one (over 91st centile) and a short one. Advantages and disadvantages for both. On balance probably worse for my shorty (who was on the 0.4th centile at age 2).

I remember the health visitor being quite rude at DS2’s 2-year check, pointing at DC1 and saying (very crossly) ‘why isn’t he at school!’ - um because he’s only 3? She was also rude about DS2 being tiny though, so she was just a rude woman in general.

I’m also aware that at age 11 now my big child can’t go in playgrounds for children up to age 12, for example, as people would assume he’s 13 or so, but then he doesn’t want to really.

We had some fun with the little one, particularly when he first started school and was a good reader. Strangers thought he was some kind of toddler genius. As he’s my last it’s also an advantage to me that my children haven’t ‘grown up’ too quick. But it’s a big disadvantage for my shorty in sports, although he’s quick over a short distance.

My tall one is very confident, so not the issues less confident tall children might have. It’s also worse for the tall girls who look so grown up even though they are at primary school.

My daughter was premature and really really tiny (still is only 5ft tall at 18) but she also learned to walk at 10 months, she was the size of a 3/4 month old baby and the stares in the park at this teeny child toddling about was brilliant!

This might be one of the things that only you as a parent care about tbh… Hardly worthy of an AIBU.

On my dds 3rd birthday she was 106cm

Sounds average.

He's about 5cm bigger than average.

Is there any truth in children being half their adult height at two years old?

@Waspsarearseholes apparently there is but I think it also depends at what age they hit puberty as the earlier they hit puberty the shorter they're likely to be.

Oh interesting, thank you!