With the midterm and high school exams in June, and the end of final exams in each school and the summer vacation, the number of children consulting about catching up their height (or short stature, precocious puberty) has been increasing, and a large group of older children (16 years old and above) come to my clinic looking for a cure to improve their height. Over the past few weeks, an average of 20 to 30 “big kids” have been coming to my clinic every week, and a large number of them are unable to catch up with the height gap due to epiphyseal closure. The height of the boys is less than 160cm and the height of the girls is less than 150cm, and their epiphyses have already closed and they have already reached their adult lifelong height, so there is no way to treat them, and I feel sorry for them every time I see them. Parents of children, please put more attention on the child at the same time, to clearly understand how to consider for the child is the most helpful to the child. The following is the answer to the misunderstanding of the parents for the child’s size to catch up, I hope to be able to help you. 1, the child is still young, slow growth is nothing, to puberty will catch up! Every child will grow according to a certain growth pattern, in the absence of human intervention, it is difficult to go beyond the original growth pattern. In other words, most children grow 1cm less than other children every year, and when puberty comes, although the growth rate is higher than that of the child before, but compared with other children, it will still be 1 to 2cm less, and ultimately the child’s height will only be smaller than that of other children. 2, the child developed earlier than other children, grow faster than others, quite good! The child early development, that early consumption of growth space, that is to say, relative to other children will be less long a few years, this kind of children (to girls mostly) adult life-long height will be small. For example: under normal circumstances girls 10y to 12y to puberty, there are 3 years to 10 years of adolescence can grow. But if the child is 8 years old when the breast development, into puberty, it is equivalent to his adolescent period only 3 years old to 8 years old time, less than other children grow 2 years, so the height will be much smaller. 3, we couple two height are quite good, genetic good, adult size is good, now smaller nothing, do not worry! Under normal circumstances, genetic height will account for 60-70% of the factors affecting the child’s height, but some children will be due to maternal illnesses, or birth injuries and other factors leading to endocrine system changes, resulting in the inability to grow in accordance with the normal his genetic height to grow, and ultimately lead to the child’s shortness. So if both husband and wife height is good, but the child is very short, more attention, do not take for granted that the child themselves slowly grow, must go to the hospital to check the cause of shortness. 4, the child grows small, we just let the child more exercise, calcium, can grow well! In the influence of the child’s height in the acquired factors in the movement and adequate balanced influence is very important, but not every child is because of the small amount of exercise, or picky eaters caused by the growth of not tall. The vast majority of them are due to endocrine system pathology abnormalities caused by the short stature of children. So should be targeted to develop a program to grow taller, do not listen to the doctor’s advice, arbitrarily give the child to eat supplements, growth-enhancing drugs, delaying the child.