Unhappy children can affect their height. Psychologically harmful factors can affect the physical and mental development of children, making them short in stature. Children who live in more favorable socio-economic conditions have a faster growth in height. Family breakups and abuse and discrimination can cause psychological creation in some children and adolescents, and longer periods of emotional depression can affect physical and mental development. Children who are not caressed by their mothers, for example, have a lower height than children who are caressed, because the former have less secretion of growth hormones than the latter. Emotional family and interpersonal relationships can give children a sense of security and help them grow taller. Ge Zhenhua, Department of Pediatrics, Nantong City Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine