how tall is your 3 year old?

[resistanceisfutile]

Just curious as I get a lot of comments about how tall my DD is. She's 3.2 and 98cm.

How on earth do you get a 3yo to stand still for long enough to accurately measure their height?!

I can tell you that DD is under 1m after an amusement park limit thing, but wouldn't like to speculate further...!

Ah, well, my DD is obsessed with "reaching the elephant" on the chart thing. I have to check she's not cheating on tiptoes

We have had the measuring tape out a lot recently and measuring each other has become quite the craze

Noses, arms, bottoms, nothing gets past!

postingforafriend - I was just telling you my thoughts on it, hence the "I think" in my post. Not saying you were wrong in any way for feeling proud :)

Heathen - DD has a Peppa Pig height chart (possibly free with a magazine) and she likes to measure herself and everyone else. Possibly not the most accurate way however....

My 3.11 year old is 109cm
My 2 year old is 106cm

Dd is 3yrs 2months and is 92cm.

She is on the short side but has shot up in the last couple of months and is definitely catching up

DS is 2.10 and 98cm. But then he was 93cm until a couple of months ago and he shot up.

OK fair enough. I was just a bit taken aback on an innocuous thread, after stating my random proudness, to be told that in fact she will be disadvantaged. I mean, anything can be a disadvantage, and as parents we are proud of all sorts of things. I am randomly proud of my strapping great girl, who takes after her father, whether that means she is disadvantaged in some way, well we'll just have to wait and see.

It just seemed like a really odd response.

Was that your reason for starting the thread, that you are worried that your DD may be tall?

Height a disadvantage? Eh?!

Speaking as a vertically challenged female, I am delighted that my DD is shaping up to be tall (97cm at 2.8) - I would love to be taller!

dd is 3.2 and 95cm.

Tall women are promoted more quickly and earn more than their shorter collegaues, apparently.

Although I think it must be difficult to be very very tall, as in get stared at when you go around the place tall, but that applies to men as much as to women. being an extreme of anything can be hard I think.

Caz - I'm vertically challenged too, and would love to be taller. But not too tall.

And yes I do worry DD will be tall. She already being mistaken for an older child. DH's sister is 5 ft 10, but was fully grown at 11. She says she got at lot of unwanted attention from older boys / men (who obviously though she was older) which made her feel uncomfortable. But she also says it worked it her favour as she could also buy cigarettes and alcohol for herself and her friends.

And obviously as a parent with no experience of being tall these things worry me a bit...but perhaps some tall people can tell me why I'm wrong to worry :)

My DD is constantly being mistaken for an older child and was recently asked how she was liking P1! (the schools have just gone back here!)

But I am far far happier with this than if she was small/underweight/whatever. I am possibly a bit biased, as I said I'd love to be taller myself, but also I got loads of hassle re weight gain, feeding etc when she was a baby, so I feel glad that she is so tall and healthy now.

Caz - how do you feel when your DD is mistaken for an older child?

I come over all defensive - "of course she's not in school she's only 3 and still my baby" - well not really but it's how I feel inside

A teeny bit of that, but tbh more proud!! Again possibly harking back to the fact that the 1st few months of her life were filled with people commenting how tiny and feeble she was! I take it as a compliment that she is hale and hearty! However I do feel the need to tell random strangers how old she is especially when she is having a 2yr old tantrum, or going in her buggy etc.

DD1 was 98cm at 3 and is still very tall at 6 (I have to buy 8 yrs trousers for length). She takes after her dad.

DD2 (3 next tuesday) is only 91cm and has got all my short arse genes . She is only just growing into 2/3 yrs Trousers. Where as ds is just 18mths is nearly as tall as her.

Ah well DD was a big baby - was at top of the chart for most of her first year so we never worried about her being small. So we have been very lucky in that respect, as I know the hard time some parents have re: poor weight gain.

I know what you mean about wanting to tell strangers her age when she's having a temper tantrum too.

My DS was always small - I never worried about him - he was on 2nd centile and picture of health I can tell you! He is still below average and weight wise would still fit in a baby car seat but he doesn't looka ny different from his peers - just slender - almost gymnastic like

My Mum tells me (she is 4ft 11) that if you are under 5ft you are officially a pygmy - sorry i just don't have height issues, and I am just under 5ft myself. Never been picked on mind you - a few pats on the head, but that soon stopped

I say this as some of you seem to be putting across what a dreadful disease it must be to be short - like I say, I can say this as I AM short - poisoned dwarf and all that

Where did you all get your height charts from? I have been on the look out in town for one for ages.

Isn't it supposed to be that your height at exactly 2 years old is half your fully grown height?

I had my two boys measured at exactly two and then had to take one of them to see a growth specialist at a London Teaching hospital. He measured us (parents) and him and said that either the HV had measured him wrongly or he had grown an inch in a week and that he would be 5ft 6 when fully grown. This has proved to be true (5ft 6ins that is).

Vine

here I have one which you can add photos.

DS was 3 in July he is 88cm tall (I think thats not very as his trousers are all still 18-24 months?

Thanks lizziemum!

Wonka
My DS is 88cm too! Yet some people tell me they think he is older (as he can talk in conversation) and some say he is small and think he is 1!!!!! because he is small. He is on 18-24mths clothes too, some kids of the same age look massive next to him (2.8), but that is life!

Ds2 is 3.8 and 101cm. I think he's quite short for his age but I suspect that's warped because ds1 is ridiculously tall for his age and was in age 5 clothes at 3 (don't remember his actual height but ds2 still needs turn ups on age 3-4 trousers). Ds1 is 6.8 and is 128cm now, so ds2 is always going to seem short in comparison.