Questions: Family & Friends

Although neither of my parents were tall (mother 5'6", father 6'1"), I ended up so damn short due to Precious Puberty, and probably other things, like malnutrition, a lack of sleep growing up, not getting enough cardio during puberty, etc.

The unofficial formula for height growth is to take the middle of your parents height and add two inches if you're male and subtract two inches if you're female. Meaning a 6'2" father and a 5'6" mother with two kids growing up under healthy circumstances, should end up with a 6'0" son and 5'8" daughter, respectively. Ideally, you would want a tall mother and a tall father, with not that much range between the two, if you were to end up tall. Those who don't end up tall with a tall father, usually have their short mothers to blame.

Of course, parents only determine your potential height range, and those with taller parents have a larger potential height range they could end up in. Environment determines what your final height will be, and whether you will meet the expected height (average of your parents, +2" or -2" inches for gender), surpass it, or fall well below it. Nine to ten hours of sleep nightly, a diet healthy with plenty of vegetables and protein, and daily cardio, is what maximizes one's height potential. This is why student athletes end up so tall. Not because of the sports itself, but because of their lifestyle surrounding it, especially cardio-heavy sports like basketball and volleyball (much less so with football or wrestling, which relies more on muscle).

I'm an inch below what the height formula predicts, but six inches below what my height should've been (two tall grandfathers; both were 6'5" and I still ended up a shrimp).

Did you end up shorter or taller than your parents?

I'm starting a career hopefully in the coming year as after I visit my long distance girlfriend with my vacation time which took me 2 years to get, I intend to send in my application to the academy. I'll be seeing her in August but the application review could take a long time before they accept me and put me into an academy class.

I wanted to move out earlier but rent has gone up literally 5 fold and I can't even come close to being able to afford my own place now and it's only getting worse, so for at least a few more years, I'm stuck living with my parents still.

My parents have never been happy together throughout my life and they've had domestic disputes before, some of which my dad broke items in the house. Since they made 2 friends, they've been going out literally every night and getting shithoused at the bar. Then they'd come home separately and have a drunken argument that's about as intelligent as you can expect from two people in their 50s with the maturity of toddlers.

My dad at one point spent over $3,000 in alcohol in one night and then that same night spent another $2,000 at a strip club. Yes, a strip club and came home giggling as if he'd done nothing wrong. My dad sometimes purposefully causes conflict because he wants to feel in control, it's not uncommon for him to drop the N word and once said it literally over 100 times in one night, which is ironic seeing as how he's black.

They've acted so childish and stupid that it's become hilarious to me and my girlfriend when I tell her about their behavior, also holding it up as a perfect example of how me and her are not. I sometimes joke to her that at least they're presenting a perfect example of how not to have a happy relationship.

Do you ever laugh at your parents arguing?

If you ask me, yes I think so.
I have a big family, and in my family, it's definitely the case, and there's no debate.

I want to know what you think though.