Growing Up Tips: Myths of Parents Myth 1: Parents are tall, children must be tall: Although height and genetics are closely related, genetics only gives a range of height, with a deviation of 7.5 centimeters above and below. If the child’s height is close to the upper limit of heredity, the child’s height is more ideal; if it is close to the lower limit of heredity, the child’s height is short. Therefore, the final height of a child is the result of the interaction between genetics and acquired factors, genetics only determines the child’s growth space, but whether it can be given full play, but also by a very large number of external factors. Parents are tall, the child is not necessarily tall! Myth 2: Boys have not changed their voices; girls have not menstruated, it is not considered development, there is no hurry: change of voice and menstruation are the characteristics that mark the child’s entry into the post-pubertal stage of development. At this stage the child’s skeletal growth area (epiphysis) has begun to close and height begins to enter the countdown to stop growing. If the child itself is not tall, parents still think there is enough time to grow, the end result is: parents recognize that there is a problem, but the best adjustment time has been missed! Myth 3: When you reach a certain age and do not grow, then take measures: Many parents believe that. First let the child grow naturally, a short, but also until the child himself does not grow and then think about it! But parents do not know: children naturally do not grow when the epiphysis also begins to close, height potential is constrained, and then adjust the hope is very slim.