My dads 5'10" & my mom is about 5'6", how tall will i be?? HELP!! im scared! im 16 and im 5'4"i havent grown!

Question

IM really concerned!!! i dont wanna be short!

Answer 1

You are probably not done growing, especially if you are male. You may have another growth spurt left in you. So, you might end up being 5'6" like your mom or even taller. Don't worry about it since there isn't anything you can do about it anyway.

Answer 2

Given the height of your parents, you may not end up being that short. Humans grow until they are 18 years of age and you may find that soon you could have what they call a growth spurt.

Why don't you ask your parents if you can seek a medical opinion as they are able to work out on a graph how tall you will grow.

However, being involved in sport also supports growth. Do you play any?
Good food is another contributing factor, so remember to eat lots of good things and leave the junk alone.

Answer 3

It's impossible to know how tall you'll be just based on your current height, or based on your parents height, because you could have a dwarfism gene or a largism gene. Usually what people will do to project how tall their child will be is the pediatrician will take the height of the child at age 4, and generally speaking their adult height will be around twice that height. Still that's no guarantee.
If you're a male, and 16, you still haven't hit your growth spurt yet, and probably won't for another year or two, so drink lots of milk, eat lots of meat from hormone injected cows, and hope for the best.

Answer 4

you are growing until age 24-26... most people stop growing by then.. Unfortunatelly you can't do much about how tall you're going to be... There's some experimental - extreme procedures, that I wouldn't recommend. If you want to know for sure how tall yo're going to be I suggest digging up the old records, your mom's measurements from way back when you were a toddler, cuz by age two you are half your mature height.

Everybody knows that. Other than that be patient and wait until you're done growing. I suggest you don't make a big deal out of it. Did you have any ancestors that were taller? It's possible you would inherit their gene... Not all children grow at the same speed and at the same time. Some grow at once and then stop, some grow steadily but consistently until they're done.
You don't necessarily grow to be as tall as your parents. I have too many relatives who came from short parents and ended up taller them both. Out of my five brothers, the shortest one is a whole inch taller than my dad who was tallest of both parents. Not even genetic engineering can give you a straight answer.
I suggest you get busy accomplishing something in life. It's not true that girls don't like short guys. Most guys I dated and the guy I married were just a few inches taller than me, and I'm petite... 5.2&1/2 ft. ... I only dated one or two that were 6 ft or over.. not by a lot, though. I dated at least 24 guys... my head hurt a lot since I had to look up to them... :) just kidding... my feet did, I wore stilletos all the time. I married only one of them ... not the tallest... Size don't matter unless you're attracted to tall girls... and even so.... I actually have a cousin married to this guy that's 2 inches shorter than her... happily married, not odd looking either. Nobody cares...they've been married for 20 years. It's not bad. They still love E/O like teenagers. Actually two of them, I just remember the other one, both very happy.
Don't fret, it won't help you grow taller... work on your character strengths, most girls like guys that know how to talk to them, witty and smart, and most of all confident. Minnimize your weak parts, but remember nobody can stand a perfect person, cuz nobody's perfect. The perfect guy is the most annoying person out there, believe you me, I've known a few. They even think they're perfect ( which is even more annoying), nobody wants to be near them!
Quality is better than quantity... believe you me!

Answer 5

It's too early to stress about it. Ask your dad and any other guys in the family when they got their height. That will give you an idea of when you can expect to grow. In my husband's family the guys don't get tall until 17 or 18, but they're all about 6' tall.

If it's really a problem (you haven't grown much in a while or puberty is done and you've stopped) you should talk to your doctor. There might be hormones or something they can give you to "jump start" it.

Answer 6

Don't worry, My daughter is taller than my husband and I, she is 5' 8". She was 5' 7" by the age of 19. She had a growth spurt just last year of another inch at the age of 24. There is no sure limit to the age a person stops growing. My other daughter at 27 gained a quarter of an inch which she attributes to the continuous practise of yoga.

Answer 7

First, there's no shame in being short. Or rather, 5'4". Maybe you'll go through some crap in high school, but people should start being mature about it in college.

Nobody really cares how tall a person is. They care whether he's a good person, fun to be around, someone they can like and trust. Sounds cheesy, but it's true. But you're 16, and you'll have to learn it yourself. (It'll be fine.)

Answer 8

You can't exactly predict it from the heights of your parents, although on average tall parents make tall kids. Both your parents are slightly taller than average, so chances are you will be too. It is possible to have x-rays taken, and a doctor can use them to give you an accurate estimate of your expected height. For most teens, this isn't necessary or worthwhile.

Answer 9

You'll probably end up taller thatn your mother, maybe as tall as or taller than you father. It depends on a number of things, heredity, nutrition, and age. Most boys hit their growth later than girlsanyway, so don't worry yet. If you are terribly concerned, talk to your parents. There are easy tests that doctors can do to see if there are any problems.

Answer 10

If you are sixteen, you probably will not notice any changes in height anymore, even when your bones grow until you're about 25. I was 5'1' at 16, and past my 30's still 5'1'. You see, there is always someone in a worse place! Don't obsess over it.