Common Mom

I’m just giggling to myself right now. I got my ParentCenter e-mail this morning and the feature of the week was their awesome height calculator. I thought “Cool! I’ve got a pretty good idea what it’ll tell me, but I’ll check it out anyway.”

So I filled out the little form, telling them that my daughter was indeed female, that she is 4, that she is 3 feet 2 inches tall, and supplied the height of myself (5′ 2″) and my husband (5′ 7″) - which obviously were not values that they actually used in their calculation. Upon clicking Submit, this is the wisdom Parent Center imparted on me about the pending height of my daughter:

“Your daughter will likely be 6 feet, 1 inches tall at age 18. This prediction is a “best guess” but it’s still just that — a guess. Based on the formula we used,* there’s a 50 percent chance your daughter’s full-grown height will be within 1 inch (above or below) of this prediction, a 69 percent chance it will be within 2 inches, and an 84 percent chance it will be within 3 inches.”

Now even with the 84% chance of it being within 3 inches, my daughter has a chance at being 5′ 10″ tall! Are you kidding me? Keira has about as much chance of being over 5′ 7″ as I have of stuffing an elephant in my refrigerator! You’ve seen our heights, and I can confirm that of all the immediate relatives (aunts, uncles, cousins, great-aunts and great-uncles, grandparents) on both sides of our families, there are maybe 5 that reach 5′ 10″ or higher.

I’ve always joked that if I was a few inches taller I coulda been somebody Maybe Keira will get my extra couple inches

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