# My 3 year old's doing college algebra! -OR- Brag on your kid time!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-3-year-olds-doing-college-algebra-or-brag-on-your-kid-time/472366>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 12, 2008, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-3-year-olds-doing-college-algebra-or-brag-on-your-kid-time/472366 "2008-11-12T16:11:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-3-year-olds-doing-college-algebra-or-brag-on-your-kid-time/472366/41 "2008-11-19T03:29:48Z")

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My oldest daughter just presented a poster at a conference, though she’s only been in grad school for 3 months. Dan Ariely (author of Predictably Irrational) actually remembered her from a dinner two weeks before at her department. And she got a perfect score on her GREs.

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**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-3-year-olds-doing-college-algebra-or-brag-on-your-kid-time/472366/42 "2008-11-19T04:23:59Z")

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One of our Yorkie puppies JUST pooped on the piddle pad! Yeaaaaa, Harley! 😃

We have to take our successes where we find them!

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**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-3-year-olds-doing-college-algebra-or-brag-on-your-kid-time/472366/43 "2008-11-19T04:37:55Z")

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At the dinner table last night, my two year old had a bit of gas. I said, “What do you say?” and he stood up on the chair and yelled, “FARTYPANTS!” He’s a comic genius.  
My husband made me stop laughing.

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**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-3-year-olds-doing-college-algebra-or-brag-on-your-kid-time/472366/44 "2008-11-19T15:06:14Z")

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My nine-month-old can walk and talk. He took his first steps one day after he turned 8 months old. Now he can manage 5 or 7 at a time. He says “mama”, “dada”, “a ball”, and his newest is “up high” - when he wants a high-five. My first boy didn’t even stand on his own until 11 months.

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**Author:** ![diku](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@diku](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diku)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-3-year-olds-doing-college-algebra-or-brag-on-your-kid-time/472366/45 "2008-11-19T15:17:00Z")

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My one year old has been walking since he was around 9 months, and has graduated to running. Very very fast running. As in, I have to put him on his back to give myself a headstart to put up the gates to make sure he doesn’t tumble down the steps, cause he can run faster than I can walk over to them. If he’s on his back I get an extra second while he gets to his feet.

And he said thank you for the first time two nights ago when I handed him something. I was very excited.

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