Sentence examples for shorter children from inspiring English sources

Why do tall parents have shorter children?

He did the same thing at home, down to a dusting protocol in which the shorter children dusted the bottom of furniture while taller children dusted the top.

If very tall parents tend to have somewhat shorter children, and very short parents tend to have somewhat taller children, doesn't that mean that eventually everyone should be the same height?

Instead, it is the tendency (for example) for taller than average parents to have shorter children and for shorter than average parents to have taller children.

The median WH value for the shorter children group (Z = −0.03) was significantly (P < 0.001) lower than that for children included in the group of taller children (Z = 0.62).

For shorter children, the maternal calcium intervention was associated with higher blood pressure compared with placebo, whereas for taller children it was associated with lower blood pressure.

Tall parents tend to have tall children, while short parents tend to have short children.

Wraps and chicken fingers abound, and there is a short children's menu ("perro caliente" is a hot dog).

Treatment to restore growth hormone to normal levels in short children carefully weighs the risks and benefits and provides substantial physical and psychosocial benefits, he said.

Both sell drugs that were approved in 2005 to treat extremely short children who are deficient in a hormone called insulinlike growth factor one, or IGF-1.

In short, children are more likely to get bitten on the face, requiring plastic surgery to reconstruct them, older people on the hands or lower body.