With two not-so-tall parents, he’s just a short kid—tenth percentile short, last-kid-on-the-risers short, sitting-down-in-class-pictures short.
I’m not just paranoid. I know my son has experienced embarrassing height-related incidents. His gym teacher recently had to lower the high-jump bar just for him. He’s shorter than all the girls he might ask to dance at his upcoming junior high soiree. At a family dinner at a restaurant last month, a waitress cooed, “Aw, look at the twins!” at him and his two-years-younger brother.
And yet, despite my son’s uphill battle of being “vertically challenged” in a culture that worships height, I’ve watched him handle this issue with impressive fortitude. To my delight, throughout his elementary years, he was one of the most well-liked kids at his school. His classmates elected him to student council, he scored solos at choir concerts, and he led his school’s Battle of the Books team to the state championship.
Mostly, though, my son’s resilience about his height is a testament to his own positivity. “It’s a fact of life I can’t change,” he told me recently. “I just have fun anyway.” Though his shortness sometimes bothers him, he counters it with great optimism, noting that it makes him special . Instead of feeling insecure about it, he’s come to view it as a positive part of his identity. He’s “that short, smart kid” everyone can pick out at school.
Society may say height is power, but my small son proves every day that strength comes in small packages, too. Maybe someday he’ll shoot up like a weed—and maybe he won’t. Either way, I have a feeling he’ll be just fine.
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