How Tall Will Your Children Be?

Your gender

Whether you are male or female will have an effect on how tall you will grow to be. Women are often shorter than men but this is not always the case. Some women can grow to be quite tall, depending on how tall her parents are and some men can end up being shorter, depending on the parent's heights. Typically, most people will grow to be at a height that is in between how tall their mother and father is.

Your diet

Eating a healthy diet will ensure you grow to be a healthy height that is already in your genetic makeup, but it will not help you grow taller than what is already determined by your genes. Eating an unhealthy diet that lacks vital nutrients can hinder your growth. While your child may be eating enough, they can still suffer from sub-nutrition which means the foods they are eating do not contain many vitamins or minerals that will promote healthy growth or development.

Your genes

Your genetic makeup will play a significant role in how tall you will be. Since you receive traits from both mother and father, it can be determined that you will only grow to be as tall as one of them. DNA structure is complex, so it is hard to determine whether you will inherit your mother or father's height gene but as a general rule of thumb, you can calculate that you grow to be around the same height as one of them.

Your exercise routine

How tall will I be? This can be hindered if you are not getting the right amount of exercise. For children, getting enough exercise on a regular basis is vital for proper growth and muscle building. Exercise is necessary to ensure you not only keep yourself physically fit but that you promote strong muscle and bone growth so your body weight can be supported.

Medical conditions

How tall a child grows will also be affected by some medical conditions that are genetically inherited. Gigantism, Dwarfism or Turner Syndrome are all medical conditions that can have an effect on a child’s height. Babies who are born prematurely will also be affected in terms of height.

Parents' height average

By adding the mother and father's height together, you can get an estimate of how tall you can expect your child to be. Convert the mother's and father's height to inches and add them together. If you have a boy, add 5 more inches; for a girl, subtract 5 inches. Then you will divide this number by two.

EXAMPLE:

To determine "how tall will I be", if the mother is 5 feet 6 inches tall which converts to 66 inches, and the father is 6 feet tall which converts to 72 inches, then add these numbers together. 66 + 72 = 138 inches.

If you have a boy, add 5 inches and divide by 2. 138 + 5 = 143 / 2 = 71.5 inches which converts to 5 feet 9 inches for your boy.

If you have a girl, you would subtract 5 inches and divide by 2. 138 – 5 = 133 / 2 = 66.5 inches which converts to 5 feet 5 inches for your girl.

By x-ray

The hands and wrists can be x-rayed to give a rough estimate of how much taller a child may grow. The growth plates located in the wrist and hands will thin over time as they grow and once these plates disappear, your child is done growing. A doctor can examine these x-rays to calculate how much taller or how much longer a child will continue to grow.

You can also refer to the link here to calculate how tall your child may grow quickly.

Boys and girls will experience growth spurts at different times and they tend to last for five years. Girls will have a growth spurt around the age of 10 and boys will start theirs around 11. Girls will tend to grow 3 inches a year during this time and boys will tend to grow 4 inches a year during this period.

This is why boys tend to be around 5 inches taller than most girls on average. However, how tall will I be will not typically be known for sure until you are done growing. At the end of puberty, both boys and girls will be done growing.

Talking to your child’s doctor if you are concerned about your child's growth is always best. If you feel that you child is not meeting the height milestones appropriate for their age by looking at growth chart or if they have suddenly slowed down growing, there could be a number of factors that can be affecting your child's growth. Your child's doctor will be able to rule out genetic conditions, hormone imbalances, and other disorders through various tests to see what could be hindering your child's growth.