Even through many children demonstrate growth spurts through puberty, once puberty is complete and the hormonal cycles have stablized into their adult patterns, growth slows in the child. The sex hormones indirectly cause the growth plates to ossify, or harden. In addition, extraordinary high secretions of growth hormone can lead to complications in the regulation of growth hormone production, eventually leading to stunted growth and other physiological problems. As the name implies, children with this condition develop secondary sexual characteristics, and accompanying behavioral interests, sooner than normal. However, a secular trend for pubertal development also exists, with girls starting menarche earlier over the course of the last century.
Puberty involves the increased secretion of several hormones.
Along with these increases, boys have increases in testosterone, while girls have increases in estrogen. Increases in the sex hormones leads to the appearance of secondary sexual characteristics and the maturation of the reproductive organs. Short stature as an adult. Although children who enter puberty early may be taller than their peers at the time, they end up with an adult stature which is below normal. Moreover, once puberty is complete, remember that the growth plates fuse.