All children have problems at adolescence.
The teenager searches for an identity, and it is a struggle. It can be more painful when your short-statured child sees friends suddenly shoot up past him. Most young people of short stature probably need the greatest encouragement and support during their teenage years. For then they face all the usual problems of adolescence, while they must also come to terms with their height and its consequences. Although there will be exceptions who seem to pass serenely through these years with no more than a few minor disturbances, many will have negative feelings about their self-image and will have phases of depression about their appearance, other people's behaviour towards them, and their own apparently inadequate means of responding.