How tall will my 12 year old be?

What is the average height for a 12 year old? The average height of a 12 year old boy is 148.3 cm (4 ft 10), while for a 12 year old girl it is 150.0 cm (4ft 11). The reason girls are slightly taller at this age is because, on average, they go through puberty earlier than boys.
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How tall is an average 12 year old?

While the average height of 12-year-olds is around 58 inches for boys and 59 inches for girls, it could be normal for your child to be quite a bit shorter or taller than average. Puberty, family history and medical considerations all play into your child's height and growth rate.
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How tall will I be at 12?

How Tall Should a 12 Year Old Be? We can only speak to national average heights here in North America, whereby, a 12 year old girl would be between 137 cm to 162 cm tall (4-1/2 to 5-1/3 feet). A 12 year old boy should be between 137 cm to 160 cm tall (4-1/2 to 5-1/4 feet). Can I still grow after puberty?
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How do you determine how tall a child will be?

What's the best way to predict a child's adult height?
  1. Add the mother's height to the father's height in either inches or centimeters.
  2. Add 5 inches (13 centimeters) for boys or subtract 5 inches (13 centimeters) for girls.
  3. Divide by 2.
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What will be my final height?

Another way to predict height is to take the average height of the parents and then, for boys add 2.5 inches or 6.5cm and for girls subtract 2.5 inches. Nutritious food is an important determinant for the final height of a child.
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How Tall Will You Be When You Grow Up?



Does height come from Mom or Dad?

The genetics of height

If they are tall or short, then your own height is said to end up somewhere based on the average heights between your two parents. Genes aren't the sole predictor of a person's height. In some instances, a child might be much taller than their parents and other relatives.
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Can two short parents have a tall child?

And yes! A person's height can be inherited from his or her parents. Frequently, the norm is tall kids from tall parents and short kids from short parents.
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How tall will my 13 year old be?

The average height of a 13 year old girl is 155.4 cm (5 ft 1), and for a 13 year old boy it is 154.9 (5 ft 0).
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Can foot size determine height?

Robert H. Shmerling of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. In fact, there's no reliable way to predict a teen's ultimate height with any precision, according to Shmerling. So, while shoe size is a poor predictor of ultimate height, there is a relationship that exists between the two.
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How tall should a 12 year old be in feet?

A 12 year old boy should be between 4 1/2 and 5 1/4 feet tall. A 12 year old girl should be between 4 1/2 and 5 1/3 feet tall.
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What is the average weight for a 12 year old?

To tell whether a young adolescent has a healthy weight, it can help to know the average for their age and sex. The averages for 12-year-olds are 89 pounds, for males, and 92 pounds, for females.
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How tall should I be if im 11?

They're likely to stand somewhere between 4 and 5 feet tall at this age. Their weight will probably be somewhere between 70 and 100 pounds.
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How much should a 5 foot 12 year old weigh?

Twelve-year-old boys most often weigh somewhere between 67 and 130 pounds , with 89 pounds marking the 50th percentile.
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How many inches does a 12 year old grow in a year?

As kids grow from grade-schoolers to preteens, there continues to be a wide range of "normal" regarding height, weight, and shape. Kids tend to get taller at a pretty steady pace, growing about 2.5 inches (6 to 7 centimeters) each year. When it comes to weight, kids gain about 4–7 lbs.
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At what age do feet stop growing?

They grow even faster during puberty, as your body turns into an adult. Your bones, including the ones in your feet, get bigger during this time. Generally, feet stop growing around 20 or 21 years old. But it's possible for a person's feet to keep growing into their early 20s.
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How can you tell if your still growing?

Look for signs of growth.
  1. Short pant legs are an easy way to tell that you must be growing. If the jeans you used to have to roll up now make you look like you're ready for a flood, it may be time to take a height measurement (as well as buy some new jeans).
  2. Foot growth is another likely sign of height growth.
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At what age do boys stop growing?

Boys tend to show the first physical changes of puberty between the ages of 10 and 16. They tend to grow most quickly between ages 12 and 15. The growth spurt of boys is, on average, about 2 years later than that of girls. By age 16, most boys have stopped growing, but their muscles will continue to develop.
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How can I grow taller at 14?

Teens want to know how to grow taller.
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I will cover the following ways you can optimally support the teen growth spurt:
  1. Get enough sleep.
  2. Eat plenty of nutritious food.
  3. Get enough protein, but not too much.
  4. Focus on calcium and vitamin D.
  5. Build healthy eating patterns.
  6. Reign in snacking.
  7. Promote physical activity.
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Does puberty make you taller?

During puberty, boys and girls will have a growth spurt and grow to their adult height. So that means girls who start puberty the latest will still be getting taller in their mid-teens. For boys, the latest to reach puberty will still be getting taller into their late teens.
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Do grandparents play a role in height?

The height of the child was correlated with the height of all family members including all four grandparents, with the strongest correlations being with the parents and the PGF. The results for boys and girls were similar (table 5).
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Where do kids get their height from?

Scientists estimate that about 80 percent of an individual's height is determined by the DNA sequence variants they have inherited, but which genes these variants are in and what they do to affect height are only partially understood.
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How do I know if my son is going to be tall?

Height at Young Age Method

For boys, double your son's height at age 2. For girls, double your child's height at 18 months. Example: A girl is 31 inches at age 18 months. 31 doubled = 62 inches, or 5 feet, 2 inches tall.
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