With the improvement of living standard in our country, parents are more and more concerned about the height of their children. The expectation of children’s height is even “higher”, and for short people, besides being “inferior” in stature, it may also affect their future employment and choice of spouse. Epidemiological survey shows that the prevalence of dwarfism in China is about 3%, about 39 million people, of which about 7 million are aged 4 to 15 years old and need treatment. Less than 300,000 patients visit the clinic every year, and less than 30,000 patients actually receive treatment. The reason for this phenomenon is that many parents do not know that short stature may be a disease, much less that it can be treated, and partly because of the cost. How to find out if your child is short First of all, it is important to clarify the definition of dwarfism, which is defined as a height below 2 standard deviations of the average height of people of the same race, age and sex, or below the 3rd percentile. Simply put, 100 children of the same region, age and gender are randomly selected and asked to line up from low to high, if they are in the top three, they may be short. However, many parents fail to detect their children’s short stature in time, mainly because of some misconceptions parents have about short stature. Many parents believe that their children’s short stature is related to their parents’ lack of height and is genetically determined, so they adopt a “let nature take its course” attitude towards their children’s height growth. The most that can be done is to enhance nutrition, take supplements, or buy some “height-enhancing drugs” for the child to eat, or even take extreme measures to increase height, such as bone amputation to increase height. Some parents are pleased with their children’s premature growth, thinking that the child will grow up to be “superior”, and such children may also have premature sexual maturity, the final height is not ideal. In fact, these are the misconceptions that parents have about their children’s height growth. There are many causes of short stature. Such as growth hormone deficiency, idiopathic dwarfism, small for gestational age, familial dwarfism, precocious puberty, delayed somatic puberty, hypothyroidism, chromosomal disorders such as Turner syndrome, chronic liver and kidney diseases, and some hereditary and metabolic diseases (such as chondrodysplasia, mucopolysaccharidosis, Prader-Willi syndrome). The treatment methods and effects vary with different etiologies. In addition, psychological factors also affect height to varying degrees. In the clinic, we have encountered children whose growth is affected by homesickness and anxiety when their parents go out to work. Some children do not adapt to the boarding school life and have slow growth after going to boarding school. In this case, if the growth environment is changed in time, the growth rate may catch up. The problem of dwarfism should be detected and treated early. Clinically, we often encounter such parents who always think their children are late growing and always want to wait and see, but when they come to the clinic, their children are already 16 or 17 years old, and the bone age film of their hands shows that the bones are already closed, so they lose the opportunity of treatment, resulting in lifelong dwarfism. Therefore, if you find that your child is short, you must go to a regular hospital as soon as possible. I would like to remind parents to measure their children’s height every six months or a year, and record it. Once you find that your child has height problems or slow growth rate, you should consult a doctor in time, so as not to miss the best time for treatment, so as not to cause lifelong regrets.