8yo DD bothered by her small size
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8yo DD bothered by her small size
| Tue, 01-13-2009 - 11:02pm |
My daughter turned 8 in December, she's in 2nd grade.
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I don't really have any suggestions for her, but as a former teacher, I would have wanted to know if something I was doing was upsetting one of
I was and still am on the small side. As a kid I was often the smallest kid in that grade and occasionally the smallest in the whole school (jr high and my first two years of high school). I hated when we were lined up according to size or moved around for pictures. Logically I understood the reasons for it but I didn't like it. What I found that helped a lot was to basically embrace the fact that I was short. I'd say things like shortest gets to go first when we'd play games. I laughed at my PE coach in JR high when he wanted us to try hurdles. I walked up to the hurdle and made some joke about it being taller than I was. It was easier on me if I made the comments about my size when it was going to come up. It also stopped a lot of the teasing because I was obviously okay with my size and what is the fun of teasing someone about something they don't see as a big deal?
As much as I hated being short, there wasn't anything I could do about it so I came to terms with it. I had a harder time dealing with the fact that my mom made most of my clothes. That was embarrassing and harder for me to stand up to the teasing. Everyone has something they are uncomfortable about and certain people take advantage of that. Sometimes (okay often) they do it to make themselves feel better about what bothers them.
I'm going to second Liesl's recommendation to talk to the teacher about it. She or he needs to know about the teasing.
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Well..I got you all beat......
I don't have a lot of advice, but I do have children that are short.
The kids' ped won't predict at all. He says it all depends on when puberty starts and stops and you just can't tell before that.
When I was in the 3rd grade one of my best friends was 5'7". She was 6'1" be the time we were in 5th grade. Her entire family was tall so she didn't have a problem with being tall but people were always making comments about both our heights. That might have been what helped me get over being self-conscious about being short, seeing how her family handled being tall and all the comments about it; "how's the weather up there?".
I interviewed for a position in my company and my feet didn't touch the ground in the chair I was sitting in. I felt like I was a kid during the interview and when one of my shoes fell off I was left with the option of laughing about it, ignoring it, or being matter-of-fact about it. I ended up laughing because it was hilarious and something right out of a sit-com. Young up and comer in the company, dressed appropriately, has a glowing reference from her bosses and her regional manager, has the classes and knowledge to do the job yet can't reach the floor while sitting in a chair and then her shoe falls off during the interview. It was like an episode of Dougie Howser, lol.