>in other words, their children were say in the 30th % on those silly charts.

The way percentiles work is that 70% of the kids measured were bigger
and 30% were smaller than a kid in the 30th percentile. That means that
someone *has* to be in the 30th percentile for the charts to work!!
My 8 year old has been in the first percentile since he was born. He is
a healthy, growing, wonderful kid (who loves gymanstics, but would
be a terrible football player)
Seems to me that there has to be some other indicator than weight to
assess how a kid is doing that are universally accepted measures of
well being.
  Happy holidays to everyone
   Naomi Bar-Yam

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