Author | Lu Yo Yo
Source | Reading at 10 o'clock (ID: duhaoshu)
Yesterday, I met a few parents downstairs in the community, and listened to them discuss what "height stickers" and "growth stickers" are, saying that they can help their children grow up.
I was amazed, how could this thing be trusted?
But not to mention, when it comes to the height of the child, the scene immediately became lively, and parents began to pour bitter water:
Our family has 6 meals a day, and milk, fish, eggs, and meat are not left behind, and we haven't grown long at all in the past two years!
You don't know, the neighbor's baby is 170, and ours is only 156......
The main thing is that my father and I are not tall, what if the child is delayed?
Seeing other people's children grow taller, parents are also anxious.
After all, height problems can affect a child's studies at least and even seriously hinder his choice of future employment, and at worst affect his physical and mental health, which is a major event in a lifetime!
According to the World Health Organization, children's growth and development have a significant seasonality, especially from March to May, and children can be 2-2.5 times taller than usual.
Taking advantage of the fact that it is still the "golden period of growing taller", let's talk about several key points of scientific development, and strive to make children grow more than ten centimeters.
Start by asking a few questions:
Do you know how high the scientific standard is for your child at this age?
Is your child's height up to the standard?
What is the indication that the child is not tall enough?
Is your method scientific and effective?
At least 78% of parents can't answer the above questions, or have never thought about it.
Because most parents are accustomed to using subjective consciousness to judge whether their children are tall or short, what you think is "short" may also be the height of the normal standard.
Instead of blindly following the trend and worrying about your child's height, it is better to take the time to understand the true height level first.
If you want your child to grow taller, you need to know whether your child needs to grow taller, that is, what level his height is at and whether it is normal. Parents can learn from two aspects:
1. Compare with your peers
In 2023, the National Health Commission's newly released "Growth Standards for Children Under 7 Years Old" specifically distinguishes between male and female babies, and you can see at a glance from the table what level the child's height belongs to at this stage, whether it is tall or short.
For example, if our child is 5 years old and 118cm tall, then it corresponds to about P90, that is, he is taller than 90% of boys of the same age.
By analogy, if it is lower than P50, it means that parents need to start paying attention to their children's height;
If it has been lower than P3, you should take your child to the hospital to see if there is abnormal bone development;
It is also not good to be higher than P97 all the time, and there may be problems with premature development.
Second, compare with yourself
To determine whether a child's height is normal, in addition to comparing with peers, it is also necessary to see whether the individual's growth rate is abnormal.
Here, I recommend that parents regularly record their children's age and height and monitor them through the "growth curve":
The abscissa is the age, the ordinate is the height, first select the child's age, and then find the corresponding height curve.
Example figure: WHO height-age growth curve for boys aged 0-2 years
The growth curve rises in parallel within the range of the two reference lines, and the "growth rate is normal"
The growth curve is flat for a period of time, or it continues to decline more than two reference lines, "growth rate is too slow"
The growth curve spikes, exceeding two reference lines, "growing too fast"
Combining the two aspects of judgment, on the one hand, we can truly and accurately understand the growth and development problems of children, and on the other hand, we can detect abnormalities in time and carry out effective medical intervention and treatment.
The height of the child is a "big thing" that every parent cares about.
But many times, it is not that children are not tall, but that parents have fallen into the following misunderstandings.
1. What is lacking is what to make up
Growing tall experts particularly emphasized: we must avoid giving children foods high in oil, salt, and sugar, such as fried foods, pickled foods, foods that are too sweet and greasy, and have too heavy tastes.
Blind supplementation will only lead to overnutrition and increase the risk of obesity in children. And obese children are the most likely to grow tall.
There was such a scene in "Youth Talk", where the little boy shouted on the rooftop: The pressure of eating is really big!
Because the child grew short, his parents felt that he was malnourished and demanded that he be served in pots for every meal, and that he must eat four pots a day.
Netizens said: "If the baby is broken, it may not be able to grow into a tall person of 180cm, but it may grow into a big fat man of 180 pounds!"
Indeed, because of "height anxiety", many parents try their best to give their children a lot of food and supplements, hoping that their children can keep up with nutrition and "jump".
As everyone knows, blind feeding is likely to induce precocious puberty, so that the child's epiphysis closes prematurely, stopping or delaying growth.
2. Hereditary
Many parents think that if the parents are tall, the children will be tall, and if the parents are short, the children will be short.
It is also this misunderstanding that makes many tall parents neglect to manage their children's height, resulting in tall parents and short children, and some children who may grow taller miss the golden period of growth.
In fact, only 60-70% of how tall a person can grow is determined by genetics, and 30-40% is influenced by environmental factors.
NBA basketball Chinese star Jeremy Lin, whose parents are both less than 170cm tall, but through the intervention of acquired environmental factors, he actually grew to 191cm!
You see, the congenital conditions are not good, and the acquired force is in place, and the child's height also has a lot of room for improvement.
3. Theory of late development
A friend of mine, a paediatrician, told me a story about a visit I received last week.
A parent brought his child to check, a 15-year-old boy who was only 152cm tall.
A friend gave him a bone age test and found that his epiphyseal line had closed and would not grow any longer.
In other words, the final height of the child is basically set at 152-155cm.
Parents are obviously unwilling to accept this result.
She eagerly asked: "Didn't you say that boys are late? Our eldest son is now 17 years old and is also jumping!"
Friends said that in the past, children lacked nutrition and it was normal for them to develop late, but now children are all well nourished, and most of them develop early, and it is rare to see late growth.
If you blindly believe in the ancient remarks of "children have a late development period", and do not find and intervene in the child's height problem in time, it will often harm the child for a lifetime!
More severely, adolescent children tend to lose self-confidence and self-esteem, and become sensitive and inferior inside.
It is said that spring has arrived, and everything recovers, and so does the height of children.
Pediatric growth and development experts said that spring sunshine is sufficient, which can promote more calcium absorption, so spring is also the golden period of children's growth, and it is a good time for children to catch up with growth.
As long as you "grasp the 3 keys" under the premise of the correct direction, you can easily help your child jump.
1. Reasonable diet and speed control
Can you believe it? Eating the right breakfast can make children grow an average of 10 centimeters taller!
In 1927, a nutritionist named Schiøtz designed a breakfast recipe for a Norwegian secondary school, and the students unexpectedly grew 10 cm taller.
Not only that, but later follow-up studies found that these students also had good grades, and their earnings increased by 2%-4% compared to their peers after graduation.
The secret to this breakfast is that it is nutritionally balanced, containing cereals, fruits and vegetables, and high-quality protein. It can be seen how important a reasonable diet is to control height.
Experts also emphasized that children rely on the secretion of growth hormone to grow taller, and they cannot be crazy about supplementing calcium for children.
Excessive calcium supplementation can lead to an increase in blood calcium concentration, causing a burden on the kidneys, and even hematuria, stones, etc., which in turn restricts the child's body growth.
I also shared an experience with a friend who has a strict rule of about 20-30 minutes to eat.
Because children are prone to eat too much when they eat fast, they will accumulate excess nutrients into fat in the body, and eating slowly will affect nutrient absorption, resulting in diarrhea or constipation.
2. Insist on doing "growth and height exercise" every day
Scientific studies have confirmed that children who exercise regularly are on average 4cm taller than children who do not exercise.
On the premise of ensuring a nutritious diet, exercise can promote the proliferation of epiphyseal cartilage, increase the precipitation of bone calcium, and stimulate the secretion of growth hormone, thereby directly promoting the growth of height.
It is recommended to set aside at least 20 minutes a day for outdoor exercise, especially jumping.
For example, jumping on one foot, jumping on both feet, jumping forward, basketball, skipping rope, etc., will produce more external impact force, which will help the accumulation of minerals in the bones, increase the bone density, and promote the growth and development of bones to the greatest extent.
As long as you exercise properly, you can help you grow taller, but remember not to rush and blindly pursue high-intensity exercise.
After all, children's bones are relatively soft, muscle mass is insufficient, too long or excessive exercise is easy to cause damage, affecting normal development will outweigh the losses.
3. 2 golden periods of sleep to promote the secretion of growth hormone
Jiang Qun, chief physician of pediatrics and expert in pediatric growth and development at Zhejiang Xiaoshan Hospital, said that it is best for children to fall asleep before 9 o'clock during their growth period.
Because the amount of growth hormone secreted is the key factor in whether the child can grow taller. Growth hormone is secreted in large quantities and must be carried out in deep sleep.
Therefore, the child's sleep time should seize the two golden time periods of growth hormone secretion:
The first prime time: 10 p.m. to 1 a.m., peaks.
The second golden time of secretion: 5-7 a.m.
Therefore, it is best for parents to ask their children to exercise more outdoors during the day and go to bed early at night, so that the quality of sleep is improved, and growth hormone will be secreted more, so that it is possible to grow taller.
The matter of children growing taller is long-termism.
As parents, what we can do is to help him seize the golden period of spring and not miss the opportunity to grow up quickly.
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