With the completion of the midterm and high school entrance exams in June, and the end of the final exams at each school, the number of children consulting for height catch-up (or short stature, precocious puberty) has been increasing recently, and a large number of older children (16 years old and above) have come to my clinic looking for a remedy to improve their height. For several weeks, an average of 20 to 30 “older children” were seen each week, and a large percentage of them were unable to catch up with the height gap due to epiphyseal closure. The epiphysis is closed, and there is no way to treat them. I feel very sorry whenever I see such children. The endocrinology department of Wuhan Union Medical College Hospital is a peak for all parents of children, please put more attention on the child at the same time, to clearly understand how to consider for the child is the most helpful to the child. The following is the answer to the misconceptions of parents about their children’s size catching up, I hope it can help you. 1. children are still young, it’s okay to grow slower, they will catch up when they reach puberty! Answer: Each child will grow according to certain growth rules, without human intervention, it is difficult to surpass the original growth pattern. In other words, most children grow 1cm less than other children every year, and when puberty comes, although the growth rate is higher than before, but compared to other children, it will still be 1 to 2cm less. 2. children develop earlier than other children, grow faster than others, it is good! Answer: The early development of the child means that the growth space is consumed in advance, which means that the child will grow a few years less compared to other children, and this type of children (mostly girls) will have a small adult lifetime height. For example: the normal situation girls 10y to 12y to puberty, there are 3 years to 10 years old adolescent period can grow. But if the child is 8 years old when there is breast development, into puberty, it is equivalent to his teenage period is only 3 years old to 8 years old, less than other children grew 2 years, so the height will be much smaller. 3. our couple are quite good height, good genetics, adult size will be good, now small nothing, do not worry! Answer: Under normal circumstances, genetic height will account for 60-70% of the factors affecting the child’s height, but some children may have endocrine system lesions due to maternal diseases during pregnancy or birth injuries, resulting in the inability to grow according to their normal genetic height, which eventually leads to short children. Therefore, if both husband and wife have good height, but the child grows short, we should pay more attention to it, do not take it for granted and wait for the child to grow slowly by itself, and must go to the hospital to check the cause of short. 4. children grow small, we just need to let the child exercise more, calcium supplement, it will grow well! Answer: Among the acquired factors that affect children’s height, exercise and adequate balance are very important, but not every child is not tall because of little exercise or picky eating. Most of them are short in stature due to abnormalities in the endocrine system. So you should make a targeted growth plan, do not disobey medical advice, randomly give children to eat supplements, growth aid drugs, delay the child. …… I will keep adding new misconceptions and answering them in the time to come. You are also welcome to visit my clinic for in-person consultation or ask questions online that are not covered in the article. July 6, 2012 evening