Growth Charts

Well, I survived my son’s four year doctor’s appointment. He had to get four shots and I’m not sure who was the most traumatized. I think it might have been me.

Anyhow, I was comparing the growth chart that I received from the doctor with the Korean growth chart and I was a little surprised to see that it matched. My son was 50th percentile on both charts. When I was little, I was always on the very bottom of the U.S. growth chart and my sister barely made the chart. My parents always wrote it off as a cultural difference. Both my sister and I grew to a pretty normal height by U.S. standards, but we did it much later in our lives than our friends.

Here is a link to a site that has growth charts for all different countries. It’s funny how your preconceived notions can be stomped on in a single moment.