Height Prediction is BS

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Why do doctors predict the height of children? It nearly impossible to tell and they have no way to form a basis by just looking at a child how does it work? It seems like a pointless thing to do and when someone is at their final height and they're inches below what the doctor said, they're sold short of their dream height! It seems like a pointless thing to do in a child's physical what do you guys think?

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I assume they are predicting optimum possible heighr based on genetics and lifestyle of the parents. Othee than that, natural factors such as eating habits may cone into play.

As to why i would assume to inform the parents what to expect of their child and to encourage the a childs healthy lifestyle.

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if height prediction worked then all children for a given couple would all be the same height.

I agree its total bull . there is no way to determine which genes the child will get and express.

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Yeah not gonna do it. Was told would be 6'4" and possibly 6'5" and am inches below that height!
Angry undergrown man child I am!

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I never ever remember that my parents were that concerned about my height. They were concerned that I was short but they thought that I would catch up eventually. They had no clue how genetic and height worked, and both my parents are short they had no clue that I was going to end up as short as both of them. Since my whole family background is of tall cousins, my parents thought that I would eventually reach them. Unfortunately it never happened. Especially because I entered puberty early (at around 10 years old I was jacking myself off in the Living Room lmfao). I started to grow that chinese moustache at around 12, and pretty much at that age I have been using the same Clothing Size. I am barely X-Small size, it still fits me a little bit bigger. My parents never kept track of my growth in other words.

Anyhow, when things started to get serious, my parents took me to an endrocrinologist when I was 14. The guy obviously prescribed me HGH treatment, he knew that I was going to early puberty and he did not do anything about it, he instead prescribed me more HGH (which obviously I did not need). Surprisingly, I don't remember that he even predicted my height nor checked a growth chart. He just told me that I was way shorter than average and underweight. I never got the HGH until I turned 15. At 14 my hand growth plates were about to close. I started hurrying with the HGH at 15 hoping that I would eventually reach my father (he is 5'6"). Obviously, I just grew like 1 cm in a 4-months HGH treatment. We asked the doctor what was going on and he asked me for a knee growth plate x-ray and he concluded that I was pretty much done growing. I asked him if there was any growth chart or something that could predict my height and he said that those things didn't work, especially since I went through early puberty. He also noted that I went out of the percentiles when I was around 14. Probably when I was like 12-13 I was in-between and average range and in chances of being tall. But since my height stayed the same until my 14 years, he noted that I was pretty much done growing. At this point he only told me to "keep going with the HGH" and to expect a 2 cm growth on my spine. That was fking dumb as he was only trying to take us money. I got mad over the fact that he gave me HGH instead of something else to delay puberty (estrogen production which is what stunts your growth). Anyhow, he made me concerned that I still have a chance of growing a little bit on my back and is pretty much what I am going for right now. I hope I can grow 1-3 inches on my back during these last years of "puberty" I have (if so) in order to be at least around the average "manlet" height. I can't grow a whole beard and my voice still cracks up at times, and there are some spots left that need to be filled with hair in my body so that puts me around the stage 4 of the Tanner estimate.

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its not balck and white it is a general idea and it usually works. its not a bad thing at all

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Calm the fk down dude. You are 6'1 already. Stop whining like a bitch.

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Quote from: Bruno Mars on December 23, 2014, 07:21:23 AMCalm the fk down dude. You are 6'1 already. Stop whining like a bitch.

He might be from Netherlands, where 6'1 is not considered tall, unlike 6'4.

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Quote from: Bruno Mars on December 23, 2014, 07:21:23 AMCalm the fk down dude. You are 6'1 already. Stop whining like a bitch.

There's a difference between 6'4" to 6'1". I have every right to lengthen as much as you do.

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Quote from: LittleWhiteMan on December 22, 2014, 11:21:23 PMI never ever remember that my parents were that concerned about my height. They were concerned that I was short but they thought that I would catch up eventually. They had no clue how genetic and height worked, and both my parents are short they had no clue that I was going to end up as short as both of them. Since my whole family background is of tall cousins, my parents thought that I would eventually reach them. Unfortunately it never happened. Especially because I entered puberty early (at around 10 years old I was jacking myself off in the Living Room lmfao). I started to grow that chinese moustache at around 12, and pretty much at that age I have been using the same Clothing Size. I am barely X-Small size, it still fits me a little bit bigger. My parents never kept track of my growth in other words.

Anyhow, when things started to get serious, my parents took me to an endrocrinologist when I was 14. The guy obviously prescribed me HGH treatment, he knew that I was going to early puberty and he did not do anything about it, he instead prescribed me more HGH (which obviously I did not need). Surprisingly, I don't remember that he even predicted my height nor checked a growth chart. He just told me that I was way shorter than average and underweight. I never got the HGH until I turned 15. At 14 my hand growth plates were about to close. I started hurrying with the HGH at 15 hoping that I would eventually reach my father (he is 5'6"). Obviously, I just grew like 1 cm in a 4-months HGH treatment. We asked the doctor what was going on and he asked me for a knee growth plate x-ray and he concluded that I was pretty much done growing. I asked him if there was any growth chart or something that could predict my height and he said that those things didn't work, especially since I went through early puberty. He also noted that I went out of the percentiles when I was around 14. Probably when I was like 12-13 I was in-between and average range and in chances of being tall. But since my height stayed the same until my 14 years, he noted that I was pretty much done growing. At this point he only told me to "keep going with the HGH" and to expect a 2 cm growth on my spine. That was fking dumb as he was only trying to take us money. I got mad over the fact that he gave me HGH instead of something else to delay puberty (estrogen production which is what stunts your growth). Anyhow, he made me concerned that I still have a chance of growing a little bit on my back and is pretty much what I am going for right now. I hope I can grow 1-3 inches on my back during these last years of "puberty" I have (if so) in order to be at least around the average "manlet" height. I can't grow a whole beard and my voice still cracks up at times, and there are some spots left that need to be filled with hair in my body so that puts me around the stage 4 of the Tanner estimate.

Feel bad just reading this, technology should have made it possible to influence growth by now. It is just so inherently unfair that some people grow up to be unattractive (or downright ugly), short, disabled or such and it's even worse that it happens so early in life. It really deals a hard blow when we're the most vulnerable.