What would you tell your child if she is small size?
yesterday I came across a situation regarding a small size girl. She is 5.5yr while my daughter is 4.5yr. As her parent is small size, less than 5ft, so she is the shorter than my daughter. In fact, my daughter also a small size if compare with same age child.
My question is what will you say to that smaller girl if you are the parent, or if you are me?
For me, I told the girl that she needs to eat more vegetable, drink more milk and eat meat, then she can go taller as I think most kids are picky on eating and that lead to unbalance diet.
However, the mom said to her that there is something call genetic and she will be small as her parent are small. I was shock although that is the truth. It is not always truth to have same gene and I will be sad if my parent told me that I will never be taller.
Re: What would you tell your child if she is small size?
sa2501,
thanks for your response. I think the child will understand and accept their height once they are older.
But as 5yrs old, I think we should give her a hope that she may go taller if she can eat more healthy food. Yes, there is genetic issue but no one can tell if you can go taller or shorter. May be the genetic from the last generation is very tall? Who knows?
In many situation, your eating habbit and volume of exercise can improve the existing condition, so why we cant just leave a hope for the child that she may go as tall as others? Dont you agree?
Re: What would you tell your child if she is small size?
I agree with the child's parent and sa2501. Tell them the truth. It is not about hope, but the kids have to be happy with who they are. Especially comparing chinese to other nationalities, for sure chinese will be shorter la. Comparing with others is always leading to a disappointment because there will always be someone better (or taller) than you.
My girl is very petite and wanted badly to be tall. I told her, God made each person uniquely, just like some trees are shorter, some trees are taller. Some grow faster, some grow slower. As long as we are healthy, then we also have strong bodies.
I told her, she will definitely grow taller as every child will.
My strategy with picky eating is drive her towards health bodies. Don't make it as an issue for height/weight/appearance.
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