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Recently, people from Shandong have been out of the circle due to their height. In the news of identifying relatives, there is a Shandong man who is one head taller than his Zhejiang brother, a young player who is 1.98 meters tall on the field, and a 13-year-old child who is 1.95 meters tall - the whole internet is asking the same question: What did Shandong people give their children to eat?

 

There are so many factors that affect height, why do people think of food first.

 

Eating "is indeed the most important and transparent factor that parents pay attention to among the postnatal factors that affect height. Genetics cannot be changed, the climate cannot be moved away, and the daily routine has to endure for years, with only three meals a day, making it the easiest to handle. Compared to other factors, diet seems to be more likely to become a breakthrough point, and there is also an economic logic behind this in family parenting.

 

For a family, parenting is never a multiple-choice question of "unlimited investment", but a typical resource allocation problem under budget constraints. In contrast, specific dietary experiences such as calcium milk biscuits, big Mantou and milk are easier to understand and remember. A tall person sharing their childhood recipes is often easier to attract attention and enter the consideration range of parents than professional analysis involving multiple influencing factors.

 

This is actually a limited rational choice made by parents under the constraints of resources and cognitive conditions. In the reality of incomplete information and unpredictable results, people often find it difficult to find the "optimal solution". The bounded rationality theory holds that human cognitive and information processing abilities are limited, and when faced with complex choices, they tend to seek feasible solutions that can meet their own requirements, that is, answers that are easy to understand and convenient to use. It is not difficult to understand when it comes to parenting issues: since it is impossible to accurately determine how to raise the best child, referring to the experiences of people around you and learning from the practices of other families becomes a worry free and effortless choice.

 

So, parents who copy recipes are not confused, but have given a reasonable answer under limited conditions.

 

The improvement of living conditions has indeed laid a better material foundation for the growth and development of young people, from the past emphasis on eating well and wearing warm clothing, to the current emphasis on nutrition and physical exercise.

 

The popularity of the Internet has also changed the information environment of family childcare. When parenting experiences from various social media platforms emerge and spread repeatedly, parents who are immersed in them are likely to have the impression that since so many people are trying, there must be a reason for it.

 

The problem is that although borrowing from others' experiences saves some of the trouble of searching for information and comparing solutions, it may not necessarily reduce actual expenses. High priced nutritional supplements, additional physical training, and lack of necessary growth testing may all consume the limited funds and energy of families. If the additional investment does not bring corresponding health benefits, but instead squeezes the time and resources needed for basic nurturing such as regular sleep, balanced diet, and daily exercise, it is easy to fall into the dilemma of "investing too much but achieving little effect".

 

There is no unified template for growth and no universal formula for child rearing. Seeing the anxiety of blindly chasing height figures, we must also see the practical constraints of ordinary people's parenting decisions. The simple choice of striving to leave no regrets under limited resources requires stable and reliable public information supply to reduce decision-making costs - making professional judgments such as growth and development assessments easier to obtain and reducing the market for exaggerated products. Ultimately, what needs to be improved is the conditions for parents to make judgments, not the determination and intensity of parental investment.

 

The sample of height out of the circle is a warm and concrete answer to people's livelihood in economic development. Economic confidence, livelihood warmth, and development resilience enable more families to have more calm and rational parenting choices. Spending every penny on growth patterns is the parenting economics worth advocating. (Source: Economic Daily Author: Ren Kun)

 

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