“He’s going to be really tall!” exclaims your mother-in-law, watching your 2-year-old run in circles around the room. “How would you know?” you reply, attempting to protect him from the glass table.

A man with a beard and a black t-shirt measures his height with a tape measure. Genetics partially influences height, but other factors, such as nutrition, also affect how tall you become as an adult.

Q: My baby is small but my pediatric provider says she is "following the curve" so he is not worried. What does that mean? I'm still worried! A. If your baby is "following the curve" of the growth ...

If you want to know how big a puppy’s going to get, popular wisdom tells you to check out the size of its feet. But how do you tell how tall your kids will be? Do their pixie toes or clodhopping ...

Perhaps the most ubiquitous family tradition is charting kids' heights on a door frame. There's something especially sentimental about having your kid stand up against the door frame as you mark where ...

As Wendy Sayles recently got ready to sell the Larchmont, N.Y., home that she and her family have lived in for nine years, she noticed that the professional painters had overlooked a spot on the ...