Tall Tales
My family and I are weighing an interesting problem. The doctors say my 11-year-old four foot three inch daughter MUST go on growth hormones immediately if she wants to reach at least five feet at adulthood.“Tall is important,” says the doctor, who is all of about five foot four himself.
So, what’s the difference between four foot eleven (her predicted height) and five feet, possibly five feet two (her hormone-enhanced height)? Either way, she’s no Giselle Bunchen.
My daughter’s skittish about shots. I’m skittish about pumping a healthy kid with hormones. What to do? Give into some ideal she’ll never reach or just let a short kid be a short adult?
Perhaps that Dove “Real Beauty” campaign was right. Standards of beauty are just too unattainable to really care about.
Comments
Doctors in the 80's put teen girls on BC pills to regulate men. cycles, women took BC pills when they became active, HRT when they became pre menopausal -- As a mother and a woman, I would ix-nay on the hormones. Your daughter should let Mother Nature determine her height, not modern medicine.
Posted by: Helene K. | July 8, 2008 06:44 PM