The day before yesterday, I went shopping with my wife and children, ready to buy new clothes for my children to wear for the New Year, and my wife opened the "spit mode" while trying on shoes for her children:
"This child is not very tall in a year, his feet have grown a lot, and the shoes of a few months ago can't be worn now."
Hearing this, I couldn't help but laugh and say to her, "They all say 'grow a long foot first', which is a precursor to children growing tall, and they will definitely become tall next year."
In life, many parents may have a similar experience, although the child's feet have become much larger, but the height is "not improving", it is inevitable that there will be some worries.
Especially for those parents who are relatively short in height, they are afraid that their children will not grow tall, and they can't help but often compare their children's height with themselves.
In fact, a child's height is not 100% determined by genetics, and there are many ways to predict a child's future height.
According to the latest research, children's height is genetically affected by about 60%-80%, and the remaining 20%-40% is affected by environmental factors.
When we pay attention to the height of the child, we can observe the characteristics of the following body parts of the child, which is very helpful for judging the height development of the child.
Is the child tall in the future? These 3 body parts have "hints"
1. Soles of the feet
If we pay attention to observation in life, it is not difficult to find that some tall people tend to have big hands, for example, in basketball teams with an average height of more than 1 meter 9, many team members' shoes need to be customized individually, because their soles are much longer than ordinary people.
And in ancient China, there is also a saying that "standing seven sitting five plates three", which means that when a person stands, the height is 7 times the length of the foot, when sitting, the height is 5 times the length of the foot, and when sitting on the knees, the distance between the two knees is 3 times the length of the foot.
Of course, some parents may worry, why is the child's feet a strong long, shoes a strong change, the height is not changed?
In fact, each child's physique is different, the child's foot will be ahead of the growth and development of the trunk bone, so as long as you wait patiently, the child's height will definitely increase.
2. Thighs
For example, we often use "five short figures" to describe a person's short stature, which means that the limbs and neck are short.
In general, the thigh bone accounts for about 27% of the height of the human body, and the extension of the bones of the lower limbs of the human body is particularly important for height development, in a sense, the height development of the child is the process of "leg growth".
So if we find that the child's legs are slender, then in the future, most of them will not be bad in height, and the body proportions will be better.
3. Figure
When the child is a child, the meat is really cute, but if the child comes to adolescence, the height is the time of rapid growth, and the figure has been "horizontally developing", then parents should be more careful.
Children's height development needs a lot of nutritional support, when growing tall during puberty, because nutrition is used to grow tall, children are generally relatively thin, only height development stagnation, the nutrients absorbed by the body will turn into fat, making the child's figure fat.
Therefore, if the child's figure is not balanced enough, compared to the same age is fatter, then it may be that the epiphyseal line has closed in advance, and there is not much room for growth in height development.
To help your child grow taller, seize the 3 golden periods of height development
1.0-3 years old
The baby's height at birth is basically about 50cm, and it can grow by about 25cm in the first year after birth, and the growth rate will remain at 10-12cm per year before the age of 3.
At this stage, the baby's height will develop rapidly, we must ensure that it provides adequate nutritional intake, to ensure that the baby has a high-quality sleep, moderate exercise, overall, at this time, the height of the children will not show much difference.
2.4-10 years old
At this stage, parents still need to lay the foundation for their children's height development, and between different children, height will soon have a watershed.
In order to help children grow taller, parents should avoid putting too much pressure on their children, ensure daily sleep time, especially eat less fried foods, carbonated drinks, etc., so that children can maintain healthy living habits, which is the key to rapid growth in height.
3. Puberty (girls 10-18 years, boys 12-20 years)
The last golden stage, but also the adolescence that is highly valued by parents, at this time the height of the children will quickly open the gap, some children may still be the shortest in the class last year, and the second year will come to the "first echelon" of the class height.
Children are in adolescence, but also a critical period of academic development, parents can not only focus on academics and ignore the child's physical development, to do a good job of nutritional supplementation for children, urge them to maintain good sleep, appropriate exercise, children's annual height development should be maintained at 6-8cm, to be qualified.
Old Miao Conclusion:
The child's height development problem can not be sloppy, we change the acquired factors, try to help the child grow tall, should start from the three aspects of exercise, sleep, diet, grasp the 3 golden period of the child's height development, in order to really play a positive role in the child's height development.
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