Would you like to know how tall your child will be? How to calculate that...

Your child would probably LOVE to know how tall they’ll be one day...

Dr. Mitchell E. Geffner, pediatrics professor at the Keck School of Medicine, has a formula to help figure that out:

• For girls: FH - 5 + MH ÷ 2. Take the father’s height, subtract 5 inches, add the mother’s height, then divide by 2. 

• For boys: MH + 5 + FH ÷ 2. Take the mother’s height, add 5 inches, add the father’s height, then divide by 2.

Of course not all brothers and sisters wind up the same height. These formulas won’t be exact and there are certainly more factors to consider. But, more often than not, this number will be within one or two inches of adult height.