Anybody have a short DD?

[luvwinnie]

Now that is one problem DD does not have! (can you say 32C)....Shhh..I did not just say that!

DH is very umm...unnerved about it. He's always like...can't you wrap her with an ace bandage or something!

My niece is a D!!!!! I tell HER what she lacks in height, God made up for THERE! My other nieces are 5'9" and 5'10" and A cups! Oh, that annoys them!

 

[Robinrs]

lol, I've been short ALL of my life and I LOVE it!

The sad thing about being 14 is you don't want to be different you want to be the SAME as everyone around you.

As she gets older she will learn to love it, just like I did.

She is soooo pretty!! Let's face it, if it weren't for the height she'd be complaining about something else, that's the nature of kids that age. My son, 13, told me this morning he hated the fact that he had hairy arms....

I was 3 feet 10 at her age and I'm 4 feet 11 now. I've always used it to my advantage, people really think short girls are CUTE! Tell her to enjoy it, one day she will.

By the way, my son passed me at age 9! He's now 6 inches taller than me! He gets it from the other side of the family.

And also, God bless the fact that she is a survivor!!

 

[RealMickeysGirl]

I was 4'11'' at the end of the 8th grade - near the age of your daughter. Between then and the start of the 10th grade, I grew 6 inches. It can happen all at once. My grandmothers were both tiny little women, 5' and 5'2'', so I thought for the longtes that I was just going to be little like them. She may still grow some more and if she doesn't tell her to feel good about her self. IT isn't height that makes someone what they are - it is what is in their heart.
Is she athletic - like gymnastics? I have a friend who is 5'1'' and she didn't grow to that height until after she graduated and stopped gymnastics.
I know it is difficult for your daughter right now but she will be fine.
It's funny, I always wanted to be either really small - like my grandmothers - or really tall - like my girl cousins who were 5'11'' and 6'. I ended up 5'5'' - go figure

 

[luvflorida]

I just thought of a reason that my daughter LIKES being so short. She's very involved in dance and takes many classes a week, (jazz, hip hop, modern, ballet, pointe, lyrical), and she competes in three of the elements. Every year group photos are taken and every year she is always right in the front. You can't miss her or her entire costume.

On the flip side, she knows she'll never make a career out of ballet. But she is one dynamo when it comes to hip hop!

 

[Brier Rose]

Wow, thank you all so much!

I can't tell you how much I appreciate everything that you've said. It really has helped so much.


Like another poster pointed out, I believe if it wasn't her height, she be fixated on something else. I think it's just this age. God bless all the parents of teenagers!

I'm feeling much better today, and while there is nothing I can say at this point that is gonna make DD happy with her height, I do have some plans to help her mood a bit.

She has her very first formal dance coming up in May, and she's been dying to go shopping for her ballgown. Of course she'll have to have shoes too! I haven't been letting her wear very high heels, but if that's what she wants it's ok by me!

Thanks again everyone!

 

[BeNJeNWaFFLe]

Now that is one problem DD does not have! (can you say 32C)....Shhh..I did not just say that!

DH is very umm...unnerved about it. He's always like...can't you wrap her with an ace bandage or something!

Your DH sounds like my dad when I was that age. I would have been happy if I was that size at 15. Let's just say I blossomed very early and my dad has since learned to live with it.

Now, there is nothing wrong with being vertically challenged. Two good friends of mine are 4'10" and 4'11". Honostly, I never think of them being short. I am actually 5'3". I don't know if that is considered short or not. I was always petite and I reached the height of 5'2" when I was 15. I was told I was done growing. Well, I don't follow the rules because I grew an inch at the age of 20. So your daughter has hope!

There is nothing wrong with short women. My mothers family is short and they are fiesty women. My mom claims she is 5'4" but either she shrunk or she lies because I am a slight bit taller than her. Her aunt is about 5ft and her other aunt is about 4'9". They were considered growth markers when I was young. If you were taller than Aunt Pat you were doing good. My dads family (who I take after in good looks ) is tall though. My dad is 6ft and his mother and sister are both tall, I'd say around 5'10". I guess I had to take something from my mothers side and it was the height.

 

[ReneeA]

She may just be a late grower...I was.

I graduated from High School at 17, and I was 5'4". I came back from my Freshman year at college, and I was 5'8".

It was a good thing for me because even though I was the oldest child, I was a lot shorter than my sister and brother (they are 5'11 1/2 and 6'5"). It's no fun being way too tall...my sister was 5'9" at 11 years old and people were horrible - commenting about her playing with toy and making snide comments about how "there must be something mentally wrong with her." Uh, no. She's a *little girl* and can play with toys if she wants to. My mom used to get just like this

She's beautiful whether she stays that size or grows another few inches.

 

[carone0318]

Hi all, I have a dd (9.5, will be 10 in Sept) and she is very petite. The specialist classified her as genetic short stature - when you come from short parents, you end up short. If she makes it 5', they will be happy. She is currently about 48".

She has overcome the being teased at school. I think the hardest part was everyone wanting to pick her up, as if she was a baby.

The endocrinologist said the most important factor was keeping up her self-esteem. As some others have mentioned, she is a competitive gymnasts, which being small is actually an advantage.

At her age she still wears a size 13 shoe (ds who is 4.5 yrs younger is wearing a 12). For her clothes she is a size 5 waist. My problem is that all of the clothes that fit her look like they belong on little kids and the styles that she likes are too big.

I think what others have said is so true, that if she wasn't fixated on her height it would be something else. She is a teenager and is critical over everything.

It's great to read all of these threads and to know that us short folks aren't alone. I'm the tall female in my family at a whopping 5'3".

 

[RadioFanatic]

My DD is 14..will be 15 in Oct., and she is only 4'10. She had cancer when she was a baby, and had some kidney damage from the chemo and radiation, so we've always known she most likely wouldn't grow to her full height.

It's something she's always noticed , but hasn't been upset about, until today!

We stopped by my sister's office today, and this stupid woman just kept going on and on and on about how short she is!

And this woman KNOWS her history! DD just had this look on her face...OMG..I knew I was gonna start crying again.

She just looked devestated. The other ladies in the office started to get uncomfortable, and just kept commenting on how beautiful they think DD is, how pretty her hair is..etc.

This is SOOO not the right age to be hearing this kind of stuff! DD has always been very strong, and even though I know it hurt her feelings, she'll get over it.

I'm the one with the broken heart!

So what age do girls stop growing anyway???

My Dsis is only 4'10". Growing up, she was given kid's menus at restaurants WELL past the age for them, she had to have a stepstool to reach her locker at school, everyone thought she was a lot younger than she was and she hated it b/c I would call her my "little" sister (I really meant younger - I truly wasn't trying to be mean)

Anyway, now at age 30, she is married to a guy who is 6'3", has two beautiful children, and embraces her "height deficiency". So don't worry your daughter will too. And if she is the one in your siggy, she is absolutely gorgeous and height will never be an issue!

 

[TinkInPink]

BTW..my DD is a horse girl too! She's been riding English for about 4 years now, and loves to do shows. Only small jumps though, those big ones scare me!

yep i ride english too, but i ride saddleseat. (only a bit different, a tad differnce in the tack and no jumps.)

 

[Laura]

Generally, being a petite woman will work for her better than being an exceptionally tall woman. There's clothes for petite women everywhere, she can always have things hemmed (harder to have things let out), and she can wear big ol' platform shoes and get away with it. I'm 5'3" and the women in my family--particularly on my mother's side--are all shorties. It's really not so bad once you're out in the world with people of all ages and sizes and not constantly compared physically to other kids in your grade.