How tall can a child grow during the voice change period?

Nowadays, girls have higher and higher standards for choosing a partner. For height alone, they require the partner to be over 1.8 meters tall, which makes boys with less than ideal heights feel discouraged. Height is also a sign of a boy’s self-esteem, so if you want your child to have an enviable tall stature, you need to start from an early age. So what we need to pay attention to is, during the voice change period, can boys still catch the last train of growth? How tall can it grow?

Normally, boys enter puberty at around 10.5 years old, marked by the development of the testicles. The development sequence is:

At 10-11 years old, the testicles begin to develop;

11-12 years old, scrotum development and pigmentation, penis development;

12-13 years old, adrenal gland function appears and pubic hair develops;

13-14 years old, testicles and penis develop rapidly, breast tissue develops;

14~15 years old, armpit hair, acne, voice change, first nocturnal emission.

Because the signs of puberty in boys are relatively hidden, parents generally find it difficult to detect if the child does not tell them. By the time a child shows obvious external characteristics such as voice change, acne, beard growth or Adam's apple, the child has usually entered the middle and late stages of puberty.

At this point, the peak of sudden height growth has passed, and there is little room for height growth.

According to relevant literature reports:

The peak of boys' height growth during puberty is basically before their voice changes. At this time, due to the increase in growth hormone secretion, bone growth is promoted, and they grow no less than 6-8cm each year.

After the voice changes, height growth slows down significantly until it stops growing. This is because the increase in sex hormone secretion after puberty causes the epiphyseal plates to mature and stop developing, resulting in fixed height.

Clinical medicine shows that:

Generally speaking, a person's epiphysis will close at the age of 14 or 15 (second or third grade of junior high school). Once the epiphysis closes, it is impossible to grow taller no matter what method is used.

When a boy's voice changes, it means that his height has begun to stop growing. His height will grow by a maximum of 5-7.5cm. Some children may only grow by 1-2cm.

If a boy's height is not tall or ideal when his voice changes, and his parents think that he has enough time to grow taller, and do not intervene in time, by the time they realize there is a problem, they have actually missed the last opportunity to intervene in his height! If a boy is less than 1.6 meters tall when his voice changes, he may never grow taller than 1.7 meters.

In real life, many parents pay little attention to their children's development due to lack of knowledge about adolescent growth and development. When their children show testicular development before the age of 9, they do not notice it, resulting in early development in their children. Only when the child starts to grow a beard and changes his voice earlier than other children do we think about whether he is developing early. By then it is often too late to seek help, and the best time for intervention has been missed.

The study found that:

Untreated children with premature growth may eventually reach a height of 155 to 160 cm.

In addition, because early-developing boys develop physically quickly, they are more eager to imitate some things in society, such as sex and violence. Therefore, they are more likely to be "dangerous" than ordinary children and to have social problems such as crime and suicide.

Parents should always pay attention to the problem of early development in boys, and try their best to detect, intervene and treat early, so as not to miss the best treatment time.