My assigned lot in life is that of the mother of a fifteen-year-old son. My son has not yet gone through the growth spurt that always accompanies adolescence. I can imagine that as my son, I would feel extremely self-conscious at all times. Speaking from experience, it’s hard to be so different than all your classmates are. Many high-school students dislike having distinguishing features that set them apart from the rest, such as being …showed first 75 words of 656 total…

…showed last 75 words of 656 total…feel that would simply make it worse. The situation, however, could turn out to be very positive. When all of his friends have stopped growing, my son may shoot up past every one of them. We will not know how this turns out, however, for at least a few years, at which point it will probably be less of a problem. As a poster I once saw states (paraphrased), "The problem, once solved, is simple".