When it comes to the fact that the child is "growing up", it is really a few joys and a few sorrows. Whenever the family gathers, children of similar ages seem to be a project that cannot be bypassed. Parents with tall children are naturally triumphant, and parents with shorter children are busy finding all kinds of excuses.
How tall a child can grow, parents feel that height and parents have a great relationship with their parents' genetics. In fact, there are many factors that determine the height of a child, and heredity is only one of them. In real life, there are no shortage of real examples of short parents raising tall children, and tall parents raising short children.
One year during the Spring Festival, we returned to our hometown in Hebei for the New Year, and the children of my husband's two sisters were of similar age, both 10 years old, but there was a significant difference in height.
Because her daughter is taller, the eldest sister said triumphantly: "You said that our family conditions are not good, and we did not let the children eat anything good, this son is still a strong swoop, the clothes bought a few months ago, now it is small." No, give you the clothes we can't wear, they're all new clothes, save waste. ”
Listening to the eldest sister's words, the second sister's face was obviously a little hanging: "Our family is a bit picky eater, the body is not very good, or with the height of our two sons, the child is not short." ”
In the evening, my husband and I joked, "Who do you think will grow taller after that two children?" ”
I said, "Then you still need to ask, is this unclear?" It must be the height of the eldest sister's family. ”
The husband said: "Wrong, don't look at the big sister's family's current height, lack of stamina, the signal that the height has stopped developing has come out." Although the second sister's family is now short, thick and thin. The main reason is that there is a problem with the child's diet. ”
At the party this year, the husband's words were indeed fulfilled, the eldest sister's child did not grow much tall this year, but also gained a lot of weight; the children of the second sister's family not only came in after, but also exceeded a few centimeters.
Before the child's height stops developing, there will be several obvious warning signs, as long as the parents can find out in time, the child's size can still be scurried.
4 warning signs that your child's height has stopped developing
1. Developmental delay
When you find that your child's height has not changed for a year, or even grow taller than the average at that age, it means that your child's height development is about to or has stopped.
We may wish to make a table for the child's height data, which should normally be an upward slash, and once the slash is slowed down, parents should pay attention.
2. Muscles become stronger
When we find that the child's belly, arms, and thighs have begun to grow flesh, and the muscles are getting stronger and stronger, and the curvature is also obvious, this also indicates that the child's height development has stopped. The nutrition that the child consumes every day no longer supplements the bones, but replenishes the muscles, and the development process is changed from "longitudinal development" to "horizontal development".
3. Characteristics of puberty appear
The process of human development is similar to that of plants, and once they enter the period of flowering and fruiting, they no longer grow taller, but grow stronger, preparing for the next generation. Puberty is equivalent to the "flowering period" of plants, and once the child appears the characteristics of puberty, it means that the child's height development has stopped, such as: growing throat knots, voice change, menarche, chest development, etc.
4. Often get sick
If the child is often sick, there is a good chance that the future height will not be ideal. In the high-speed period of height development, once the child is sick, all the nutrients ingested every day are used to improve immunity and physical recovery, and the bones naturally do not get enough nutrient development.
What should parents do after the child has an early warning signal
1. Adjust your diet
When the child has a signal of "height development", parents should adjust the child's diet in time, stay away from those fried, sweet, hormone-containing foods and nutritional products, and avoid precocious puberty.
2. Do more exercise
In addition to learning, parents should take their children to participate in some sports, especially longitudinal sports such as jump rope, high jump, long jump, etc., which help promote the development of growth hormone in the child's body and prolong the cycle of children's height development.
3. Ensure sleep
The study found that the most vigorous time of growth hormone secretion in a day is between 10 pm and 3 o'clock the next day, we must let the child go to bed early and get up early, ensure sufficient sleep time, supplement the growth hormone in the body, and help the child continue to grow tall.