[ktscarlett66]

Shoot, many of the students in the MS where my son went taller than me and outweighed me too. They met my husband in height. I was surprised, even though I am not very tall, at age 12 I wasn’t much smaller than my classmates. Some of those kids are HUGE.

[wideawake]

Actually, one thing I notice on the subway are young urban teens who are not only quite tall, but quite obese.

I mean people who are 14 years old, 5'10 and 280 lbs.

[the OlLine Rebel]

I know it too. My mother worked with REAL middle-school kids (13, not 15) in the last 7 years, from the “inner city”. Some of those boys were perfectly “mature” looking in size. And girls - oftentimes, they are full size, anyway. I know I myself was at that point (5’10”).