My daughter is 7 and born the exact day as her best friend. There's a head's height difference between them and my daughter is the tallest in her class (and almost the tallest in the grade above!) My daughter is 30 kgs and is bloody heavy- but perfectly in proportion as though she were 9 or 10. (She is taller than some of those, too). She came home today from PCYC and told me a kid asked her if she was a teenager and if she went to high school!


Point is, we're all Australian- (mostly) no one knows their full family pedigree and its pretty rare your kids will have un-related playmates of similar age that will be exact size! My daughters scattered family history includes a smattering of Maori on her dads side along with solid Nothern Irish, English and on my side, Croatian (generally shorter but stocky, looking at my relatives) and my mum was adopted in South Africa so there's anyone's guess!!

I guess what I'm saying, with all our marvellous mixed gene pools kicking around Australia.. It's a rare thing to find a kid as 'normal size' and there's a reason BMI is percentile. Percentile is very different to 'average'. And if I know one thing about the 'health care industry', if they can invent a statistic and mould it for their own benefit, they will. I always chuck my daughter on the scales at doctor and check height myself at the end of appointment while he writes notes! None of his damn business how much we weigh and measure.

Remember- there is NO normal!!