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Old 12-10-2009, 11:11 AM   #3 (permalink)
Acting Like Godot
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Hi, my kids were (and are) small too. Not in terms of height, but in terms of weight. Right at the bottom of the charts - like bottom 5%.

It's probably genetic, because both my wife and I were skinny kids, and she's still skinny today. (Me, I was skinny up to age 30, then started growing a little fat )

As long as the kids are healthy and happy, it's nothing to worry about.

Like Spirit4711 said, if a parent wants to obsess, there'll always be something to obsess about. The kid is too short / too tall / too fat / too thin / too shy / too boisterous / too stupid / too smart / eats too much / eats too little etc etc.

Really, the worst thing you could do is inadvertently affect your own child, with your own concerns. Like, he grows very self-conscious about his height.
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