Parents play a decisive role in the growth of each child. 70% of children with short stature are due to parents’ usual negligence and lack of knowledge about their children’s growth and development. The four myths that lead to children’s short stature, as parents, do you make? One of the misconceptions: the child’s height is determined by genetics. If the parents are high, the child will be high, and if the parents are short, the child will not be high either. Reminder: Genetics is a double-edged sword, children with short parents can grow tall, and children with tall parents can also grow short. Genetics only accounts for 23% of the factors that affect a child’s height, and through later intervention, girls can grow 14-20 cm longer and boys can grow 6-24 cm longer. Myth No. 2: Self-motivated, “active” treatment. As a result, not only do they spend money for nothing, but they also take “height-enhancing drugs” for several years, and when the results are not good enough to find a specialist, the child may have already lost the time for treatment. Reminder: At present, growth hormone is the only medicine to treat short stature. The “height enhancement drugs” that parents buy on their own may temporarily increase height, but this “pulling up the seedlings to help them grow” may also promote the early closure of the child’s bones, leading to a reduction in final height. Myth #3: Wait calmly. Thinking that “children are short is a late growth, later will grow taller.” When you find that your child is really no longer growing, it may be too late to go to the hospital. Reminder: When you find that your child is lagging behind in growth, you should go to a regular hospital for specialist consultation to find the cause of your child’s lagging growth and scientific treatment. Myth No. 4: Indiscriminate nutrition. Children do not grow, some parents think that he is not good nutrition, so often buy some health supplements for children to nourish. Reminder: those health supplements may contain substances such as sex hormones, which will promote the growth of the human body for a period of time, but will also speed up the closure of the epiphysis, and ultimately shorten the time for people to grow taller. A child is like a small sapling, natural growth is most important. Reasonable nutrition, adequate sleep, sunlight and air, outdoor activities, as well as reducing the child’s mental and psychological stress, less disease, these are all good factors to ensure the child’s healthy growth and normal ‘plucking’; if you find that your child has problems with his figure, please bring him to the hospital as soon as possible to check, do early examination, early treatment, early let the child grow up normally and happily.