You may required to fill your height at various places like forms in the school, some competitions, etc. Besides, as a parent, you may be wanting to know whether your child is growing age appropriate. It may not be feasible every time go to the pediatrician just to measure your height, but then the question arises, how to measure height at home accurately, especially when you do not have the standard Stadiometer at home, and it may not even be practical to keep one at home. So in the absence of that, how can you measure your height? There are many non-standard ways of measuring height.

Since childhood, measuring height has been a part of our lives, whether in the doctor’s office or our homes. Many of our old houses have marks on the walls measuring our height throughout childhood. Whether for medical or non-medical reasons like getting clothes, it is always good to know how to measure height.

Although all the doctor’s offices have instruments to measure one’s height, what if you have to measure the height at home? This article discusses different ways to measure height accurately in the comfort of your home with or without help. Read on!

How to Measure Your Height Correctly:

Several tools help you measure height, whether in a doctor’s office or at your home. But when you want to measure your height at home by yourself with or without anyone’s help, you will have to keep the following things in mind:

• Don’t wear any footwear.
• Stand straight against the wall.
• Avoid wearing any bulky clothing.

How to Measure Height at Home:

Here are a few ways how to accurately measure the height in the comfort of your home:

How to Measure Height with Help:

• Choose a flat section of a wall and a flat uncarpeted floor section, and take off your shoes.
• To have an accurate measurement, remove headbands, braids, and anything else on your head.
• To make standing flat against the wall easier, remove any bulky clothing.
• Choose where the wall and corner meet and stand with your feet flat on the floor and heels against the corner.
• Make sure your chin and line of sight are parallel to the floor while keeping your eyes straight ahead.
• Ask someone to place an object like a book or a ruler against the wall. Make sure the thing is set at the right angle.
• Now ask them to lower the object until it reaches your head.
• Mark the place where the object meets your head using a pencil.
• Now measure the distance from the floor to the mark on the wall using a tape measure, ideally a metal one.
• Measure the nearest 1/8th of an inch or 0.1 centimetres and make a note.

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