Teachers and students is it me or are kids getting smaller?

Question

some of the future freshmens requested me on myspace and on facebook and some of them look like they are ten or eleven years old... not even started puberty I am serious! I am short so that makes me look younger about 14 but I'm really 16... but some of these kids look about 4'8ish in their pictures with chubby faces and big teeth trying to look older. I'm asking teachers because I figure they would know...

Answer 1

It's cuz you were big in those grades, but if you look back at it, you were the same size. As you mature, physically and emotionally, the younger kids look tiny. But i have a girl in my class thats like 4'10, and she is really short. I thought that she was always short. Until i found her in a sixth grade picture, where she was just as tall as everyone else. So it's like how when you see relatives once a year, and they always comment on how you've changed. Well if you only look at a certain grade, and compare them to yourself, or to how you felt you were when you were that age, then you will notice that they are the same, and it is you that is getting bigger and more mature.

Answer 2

Yup its true

I realized this about year ago

Very surprising

Answer 3

well im 12 ... going to 7th

and wen i see ppl, younger..its omg! they have grown more than ive had! i mean sum have big chest, and mines are not soo big! :S well...everyone's different & guesss unique too!

Answer 4

I know!!! There is a LOT of 5 graders and lower and there waists are like 18 inches around! And there like 4'5!! IN THE SIXTH GRADE TOO! And my sister who is in high school is showing me these pics of these super tiny kids in her class!!

Answer 5

At my old school, I had 4th graders. THEY WERE FRICKING TINY MAN! I think we/they are!

Answer 6

WOW im going into seventh and 5.4 and im like barely above the average height

Answer 7

yea at my city like all the boys that look good are short and the ones that dont is tall its so sad boys are short these days

Answer 8

your right, every year the 6th graders coming in get smaller and smaller, it's horrible seeing them like that

Answer 9

omg! i so noticed this a few years ago. like in 6th grade i would always think the 8th graders looked so big/mature and i wondered how i would look like that so fast. and a few years ago 8th graders looked so mature. but now they look so young!! it weird.

Answer 10

yeah me and my friends have relized this. some people have asked doctors for measurements from when they were that age and the people younger than us are alot smaller.....i guess they might be right that video games stunt the growth. thats my only explanation

Answer 11

yeah i see the same thing. my cousin is going to be 8 and i remembered me being bigger and taller and stuff, but she still seems so small. and i totally get what you're talking about with the freshmen too, they look so young!