slo’s MONDAY 10/14 poll - Your Height

What Is Your Height?

  • 4’9” or less

    Votes: 1 0.8%
  • 5’0” - 5‘1“

    Votes: 12 9.9%
  • 5’2” - 5’3”

    Votes: 26 21.5%
  • 5’4” - 5’5”

    Votes: 27 22.3%
  • 5’6” - 5’7”

    Votes: 28 23.1%
  • 5’8” - 5’9”

    Votes: 11 9.1%
  • 5’10” - 6’0”

    Votes: 9 7.4%
  • 6’1”- 6’2”

    Votes: 4 3.3%
  • 6’3” - 6’4”

    Votes: 1 0.8%
  • 6’5” or more

    Votes: 2 1.7%

  • Total voters
    121

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We all come in different shapes and sizes, which makes us all unique. Height always amazes me in regards to why some people are really short or really super tall, especially when they are so different from their family. My DD21 took a genetics class and said it was so interesting learning about all this and I know I would find it interesting too. My girls are a perfect example of this….I’m 5’7” and my DH is 5’10” and my girls are 5’2” and 5’3” - why? You’d think they’d be around our height. So let’s talk about height today…….

What is your height?



For Me……As I mentioned above, I am 5‘7“. My mom is about the same height as me and my dad is 6‘5“. I love my height, not too tall not too short - it’s perfect. DD21 really wishes that she was taller, especially when she was still playing softball. When she was younger, a few doctors told us that because of how her growth plates were, that she was going to be close to 6 foot tall - it’s funny how wrong they were.
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I’m 5’ 1.5” - just under 5’ 2”…I’m the ‘tall’ girl in my family…my grandmothers were 4’6” and 5’, mom was 5’ and sisters are 4’11” and 5”. My dad was @5’ 9”. My husband was 5’ 10” and our daughter is 5’ 6”…
 
I got the short end of the genetics for height - used to be 5’1 then had two spinal surgeries lost some inches with those I refuse to acknowledge those inches 🤣🤣
I have my moms family either extremely tall or very short and same with my farther family - my mother was about 5’7 my father about the same - both grandfathers over 6 feet both grandmothers under 5 feet - I had no hope of being tall - neither did my kids they are both barely 5 feet - I would love a few more inches only for fact it would make a lot of things in life easier -
Being short makes it very challenging to to do things in a adult height world - I keep step ladders strategically placed throughout my house and use them frequently
 
I'm just about 5'8". I'm the same height as my mother. I have two sisters who are 5'10" and one who is 5'6". All the men in the family are taller than 6 feet, with my son and my husband's brother being 6'5". Even the two sons-in-law are tall. :)
 
My choice isn’t up there . I’m 4’11. I"m always the shortest in the room.

DD is around 4'9/4'10, very petite. youngest DS is maybe 5'3/5'4, older DS is 5'4. Kids always tracked on the 1-5 percentile on the charts at the dr...if they were even on the chart.
 
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I am 5'7. My dad was 6'2, mom topped out at 5'2. My brother is about 5'10?

My husband was 6'6 in his heyday, ha! Our kids are both around 6'3 or so. I often wonder how tall my kids would have been had they been female...DHs sisters are both just under 6'. HIs dad was 6'4, mom was 5'9.
 
I used to be just a hair under 5’6” but I'm shrinking. DH and I are around the same height. Most of my relatives are taller (although, two of my grandparents were on the shorter side) and most of his family is short. DD15 is around my height while DD18 is 5' on a good day. She's always happy when she gets someone who rounds up and doesn't list her as 4'11".
 
I'm between 5'6" and 5'7". I think I used to be closer to the 5'7" but shrinking a litte. I'm about the same height as my mom and sister.

It's funny how off the "predictions" can be. My kids were both adopted internationally and we did not get any info about the heights of their birth relatives, so it was really anyone's guess. Based on their growth curves at young ages, my daughter was predicted to barely top 5' tall (actually 5'6" at 20), and my son was predicted to end up at around 5'6" (acutally around 5'10" in his mid-20s.)
 
I'm 5'5" down from 5'6" in my younger days. On my dad's side I have always been one of the tallest, although most everyone else would only be an inch or 2 shorter. Between my paternal grandparents there wasn't any height!
 
I say I'm 5'2" but I'm really 5" 1 3/4". I'd say my family was pretty average. Mama was around 5'4" and Daddy was around 5'10". Most of my brother's (I have 5) ranged from 5'7" to 6'2". My ex was 6' even and our son is 5'9". Hubby is around 5'9". I've always hated being height challenged. Forget buying pants that are the right length. If you buy petit they are also petit in other areas, which was fine up to my 60s then my body said, nope not going to work. Forget being able to reach things on the higher shelves in the grocery store (why don't they totally stock those top shelves instead of letting things get toward the back?) I've been known to climb the shelves like a monkey. Forget reaching anything but the lowest shelf in the kitchen without a step ladder. Why the heck do they build kitchen shelves so darn high? I keep a step ladder at home and in our RV. I also can't reach the floor well in hubby's big ole Ram Dually so I keep a box to put my feet on. And don't even get me started about having to jump in and out of that truck. I tend to sit with my feet tucked up under me in most restaurants because I can rarely reach the floor. I have a pillow I sit on at the table in our RV because the table is taller and the chairs shorter.
 
I put down 5'3 but I am like 5'3 and a half. That half counts when you are short. Ha. I am the tallest girl out of my siblings. We are all fairly short. My mom is 5'1 and my brother is only 5'6.

My husband is 6 foot, so thankfully our kids are all taller than me. My girls are 5'4 and 5'6 and my boys are 6'1 and 5'10. I always wished I was 5'6 just so I could reach the top cabinet in the kitchen without climbing the counter. Lol
 
I am 5' 5" exactly. Absolutely average. My sister is a couple of inches shorter than me, she takes after my Dad who was something like 5' 7" on a good day. My Mom was tall like her side of the family.
 





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