What to do if your child refuses to grow taller

For parents, they certainly hope that their children can grow up healthily. However, in daily life, many parents compare their children with other children and find that their children are always shorter than other children. Faced with such a thing, they must be very anxious and are very concerned about various solutions. So, what should we do if our children refuse to grow taller? Let’s take a closer look below.

1. Reasonable feeding and timely addition of complementary food

Complementary food should be added to the baby in time after the baby is 4 months old, because 4-8 months is the critical period for the baby to form the conditioned reflexes required to swallow solid objects. Learning to eat is a skill that is acquired only after birth. If complementary foods are not added after 4 months, it will be difficult for the baby to learn the transition from liquid food to half solid food to all solid food. If this transition cannot be completed in time, the baby will not be able to swallow solid food and will be prone to vomiting, which will affect the baby's growth and development.

2. Eat everything and try to diversify your food

People are used to characterizing food as hot, cold, warm, stagnant, etc. As a result, many foods seem to be unsuitable for babies. From the perspective of nutritional psychology, if the food variety is too monotonous during infancy, the chances of developing partial or picky eating will greatly increase when children reach childhood. Therefore, food should be diversified as much as possible, especially in infancy and early childhood, and they should be exposed to rich and varied food as much as possible. This will not only ensure a comprehensive nutritional supply, but also prevent bad eating behaviors such as picky eating in the future.

Childhood: 5-7 cm per year, early puberty should be seen by a pediatric endocrinologist

During childhood, after the age of 3, a child can grow 5-7 cm taller each year. Whether it is 5 cm or 7 cm depends on a combination of factors such as genetics, environment, and nutrition. Therefore, during this "stable" growth period, parents should pay attention to their children's height every year and measure it.

There are many factors that affect a child's physical growth. When this happens, what should you do if the child refuses to grow taller? Don't be too nervous at this time. The key is to actively find the reasons, grasp the factors that affect the child's development, and take targeted measures to make up for it. Only in this way can the child's body not develop too poorly.