why do people act like there is something wrong with my kid
my daughter is 5 almost 6 and about to start K. She is tall for her age has always been she is 50 inches talL! So like tonight we went to her schools open house & I cant count the OMGs she how old, oh wow she is tall...... LOL one kid told her she is like a giant. I mean so what she is tall & she is gorgeous!! It's just so annyoing .....I really hope she doesnt get picked on ....idk
She will either grow to tower over her school mates or they will catch up and this will be a non-issue. Try not to take this as a negative comment, sometimes people have social malfunctions.
Instead of being insulted you should take the comments as compliments. She is tall, you should teach her to be proud of her height, to stand straight, head up shoulders back. There will be lots of comments "How's the weather up there?", But remind her that while they are making such comments she will always be looking down at them LOL. When parents make comments smile and say "Yes she is tall...and beautiful".
People make comments on my Kindergartner being so short. I don't take it as an insult. Everyone grows at their own rate. There was a little boy in my son's cubscout troop when he was in SECOND grade that was my height. I'm 5'7"! When they did their school play with Abraham Lincoln, guess who they had play him? LOL!
I was always tall too. At age 2 I was 3 ft tall and the dr said I would probably end up being 6 ft. (I only ended up being 5'9"). But all thru school especially elementary I was always a full head and shoulders taller than everyone else and was thin so they'd call me beanpole and big bird and giraffe but I never felt they said it in a mean way and I didnt feel bullied. It was more playful teasing. The only time I hated being tall was early middle school when I had serious crushes on boys and most of the boys were still shorter than me, so at that time my parents put me in modeling school where my height and build was a major plus and I stopped slouching and feeling self consious and started holding my head high and having perfect posture and when that happened all sorts of boys started to like me a LOT haha. ALso the boys ended up catching up with my height and many even surpassing me. My kids are all tall too and they are all proud of it and love it.
Like some others said, dont take it as an insult, take it as a compliment. Give her positive attention for it so she feels good and confident about it.
YVONNE
Quoting CoeyG:Instead of being insulted you should take the comments as compliments. She is tall, you should teach her to be proud of her height, to stand straight, head up shoulders back. There will be lots of comments "How's the weather up there?", But remind her that while they are making such comments she will always be looking down at them LOL. When parents make comments smile and say "Yes she is tall...and beautiful".
I think these ladies covered it. I'm short. What's so great about "average"?
I am always getting asked the opposite my daughter has been one of the shortest kids in her class. Her and another little boy are pretty short and smaller then the rest of them. I am not worried though she's gonna catch up to the rest of them :)
my son would LOVE to be that tall then he could ride the "big" rides at the amusement park
kids and people in general are just rude sometimes?? I think it is our "job" as parents to tell our kids how smart, pretty, etc. they are? keep telling them...they will believe it and then hopefully when they hear the rude remarks, they can ignore them and remember that they are smart, pretty, etc?
I just saw The Helpyesterday for the first time (loved it btw) I LOVED LOVED LOVED "you is nice, you is smart and you is special"
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- katjom
on Aug. 22, 2012 at 8:02 PM