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Good point.

I'll bet he is listening, but on the other hand, I don't recall feeling bad about being called 'bowling ball' by my ddad. It was almost a point of pride.

You mean it's not good that we often shout "HEAD, MOVE!" ala So I Married an Axe Murderer...

DS still laughs hysterically when we say it and generally moves so he stops blocking the TV!

"Head so big it's got its own weather system..."
"Like an orange on a toothpick..."
"Gargantuan cranium..."
"Sputnik..."

Yes, we're a "Heed! New!" family, too. And DD has had curly red hair to boot.

Oh with the red hair... I'd never be able to resist!

My ds5 has a massive head.

I have his hair cut in a particular way to minimise it.

His statistics are:

Height: below 0.04th percentile

Head: 90th percentile!

Clothes size, age two

Hat size, age five or six. Often more.

When he was weaned the health visitor noted that he had dropped off the charts and sent him to a london teaching hospital to investigate why he was so tiny. They tested him for all sorts, including a scary few months looking at cystic fibrosis. They noted then that he had an enormous head. It is especially large over his ears!

How funny, DS always had a very large head. He is a big kid in general, was born 10lb 1oz and that was a week early. But his head has always been like 90th percentile. Thankfully the rest of him is around there too...but he could never wear those cute little hats. He is 4 and has to wear hats made for 12 year old practically. DH's hats actually fit him.

Funny thread. Mine too: had to buy him an adult size ski helmet at 4.

Thinking about this and the thread talking about whether physical precocity goes with giftedness: surely, "giftedness" will turn out, once we understand more, to have a multitude of different causes. I expect some will turn out to go with big heads, some with early walking, some with both, some with neither... Though we should also bear in mind the human tendency to spot patterns where none exist...

Oh my! LOL! That spread must be a (relative) record breaker!

My DS is tall and has a proportionate head, but he did tip over whenever we tried to get him to sit as a baby. He has a long torso and a skinny butt, so he had nothing to "anchor" him to the ground. In fact, "sitting independently" was never marked in the baby book because he really couldn't do until after he was walking! We'd set him down and then he would start screaming and then slowly lean to one side and then "plop." OK, we didn't do it a lot, but it was funny in a sad kind of way. Body proportions definitely play a role in development.