Short stature is defined as individuals of the same race, sex and age who are two standard deviations (-2 SD) below the mean height of the normal population in similar life circumstances or below the 3rd percentile (-1.88 SD), some of which are normal physiological variants. For proper diagnosis, appropriate clinical observations and laboratory tests must be performed in children with growth retardation. Therefore, parents should keep an eye on their children’s height changes, and it is best to make a height record for them from a young age, noting down the annual height growth value. Once they find that their children are half a head behind their peers, grow less than 5 cm in a year, or sit in the first row of the class for a long time, they should realize that their children may be lacking in nutrition or suffering from other medical conditions, and should seek medical help in time with a view to early diagnosis and treatment. Prof. Liao Wei emphasized that even children with family problems of short stature will get a more desirable height growth if they can be treated in the hospital as early as possible. However, it should be reminded that children with short stature should not “throw themselves at doctors” and should not blindly believe in various advertisements and give their children height-enhancing supplements or use height-enhancing devices. Professor Liao Wei pointed out that some parents, because of the lack of scientific knowledge, found that their children’s head could not grow up, they would blindly give them some advertised height-enhancing drugs, but in fact, these height-enhancing drugs, or some nutrients, do not play any role; or the hormones contained in them, although they can make the children’s height grow in the short term, but at the same time it will also promote the children’s epiphysis to close early, which will play a role in the children’s height. The fact is that these drugs, or some nutrients, do not work; or they contain hormones, which can make the child’s height increase in the short term, but at the same time it can also cause the child’s epiphysis to close early, which is counterproductive.