# Brag about your kids thread **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Tags:** reactions\ **Created:** [October 1, 2020, 10:35pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/brag-about-your-kids-thread/470 "2020-10-01T22:35:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Breadmaker](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/breadmaker/32/83065_2.png) [@Breadmaker](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Breadmaker)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 2:44pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/brag-about-your-kids-thread/470/141 "2021-11-12T14:44:41Z")
Dammit, Dad!!! ---
**Author:** ![NormalDan](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/normaldan/32/1013_2.png) [@NormalDan](https://community.goactuary.com/u/NormalDan)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 2:58pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/brag-about-your-kids-thread/470/142 "2021-11-12T14:58:38Z")
When I told her the Moon has gravity and the Sun has A LOT of gravity she told me I was kidding so when I told her that even she has a little bit of Mary gravity she really thought I was kidding I think šŸ˜† ---
**Author:** ![procrastinator](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/45deac/32.png) [@procrastinator](https://community.goactuary.com/u/procrastinator)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 4:52pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/brag-about-your-kids-thread/470/143 "2021-11-12T16:52:04Z")
When I was in high school, our teacher talked about how all matter has gravity. She asked the class ā€œhave you ever noticed when you walk next to a really tall building you feel a slight pull toward it?ā€. Some kids started nodding. She then said ā€œthat doesnā€™t happenā€. Funny enough I still remember 25 years later. ---
**Author:** ![BG5150](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/bg5150/32/38521_2.png) [@BG5150](https://community.goactuary.com/u/BG5150)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 7:11pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/brag-about-your-kids-thread/470/144 "2021-11-12T19:11:37Z")
[quote=ā€œNerdAlert, post:132, topic:470ā€] Tonight our 6yo son told my husband, ā€œDad, do you know what Iā€™m doing right now? Iā€™m persevering in roblox! Thatā€™s important. It means never giving up. Itā€™s kind of like patience. Which is important too." **He is wiser than I am some days**.[/quote] No, it means he hopes you let him play more Roblox. ---
**Author:** ![BG5150](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/bg5150/32/38521_2.png) [@BG5150](https://community.goactuary.com/u/BG5150)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 7:22pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/brag-about-your-kids-thread/470/145 "2021-11-12T19:22:09Z")
> [@NormalDan](#): > > because itā€™s not accelerating We are indeed accelerating. There is centripetal acceleration though the center of the spinning axis. Plus, acceleration is Ī”v which is either a change in magnitude (speed) or direction. We are constantly changing direction along the rotation of the earth. Therefore we are accelerating. Plus, the earth is accelerating around the sunā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Triweasel](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/triweasel/32/159_2.png) [@Triweasel](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Triweasel)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 9:46pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/brag-about-your-kids-thread/470/146 "2021-11-12T21:46:23Z")
When I teach that part I usually get up on a chair and tell the students to watch reallllly carefully when I jump off to see that the earth jumps up to meet me. šŸ˜‚ Then I try to get across to them how mind-bogglingly large the mass of earth is. Hope it sticks with some of them. ---
**Author:** ![BG5150](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/bg5150/32/38521_2.png) [@BG5150](https://community.goactuary.com/u/BG5150)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2021, 3:31pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/brag-about-your-kids-thread/470/147 "2021-11-15T15:31:01Z")
My son had an incredible touchdown catch in flag football yesterday. Then he dropped a dime as QB on a TD throw later in the game. Tight spiral, prolly 25 yards in the air, hit the kid in stride. ---
**Author:** ![Snake](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/snake/32/1846_2.png) [@Snake](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Snake)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2021, 3:02pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/brag-about-your-kids-thread/470/148 "2021-11-18T15:02:36Z")
My oldest found out yesterday that they were earned a $20K scholarship to their school of choice. They now have an opportunity to have full tuition covered. ---
**Author:** ![twig93](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/twig93/32/527_2.png) [@twig93](https://community.goactuary.com/u/twig93)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2021, 4:30pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/brag-about-your-kids-thread/470/149 "2021-11-18T16:30:07Z")
Congratulations!!! ---
**Author:** ![NormalDan](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/normaldan/32/1013_2.png) [@NormalDan](https://community.goactuary.com/u/NormalDan)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2021, 4:31pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/brag-about-your-kids-thread/470/150 "2021-11-18T16:31:37Z")
TIL, it seems like what you feel is acceleration, but since ground, you, air, etc are all accelerating together your relative acceleration is 0 (aka youā€™re all spinning together) and so you donā€™t feel it? ---
**Author:** ![BG5150](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/bg5150/32/38521_2.png) [@BG5150](https://community.goactuary.com/u/BG5150)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2021, 5:13pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/brag-about-your-kids-thread/470/151 "2021-11-18T17:13:35Z")
Has nothing to do with ā€œfeeling it.ā€ If you are changing direction, you are accelerating. ---
**Author:** ![NormalDan](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/normaldan/32/1013_2.png) [@NormalDan](https://community.goactuary.com/u/NormalDan)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2021, 6:30pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/brag-about-your-kids-thread/470/152 "2021-11-18T18:30:47Z")
Okay, then how do you explain the fact that we donā€™t feel the Earth spinning? ---
**Author:** ![SteveGrondin](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/stevegrondin/32/3257_2.png) [@SteveGrondin](https://community.goactuary.com/u/SteveGrondin)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2021, 6:57pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/brag-about-your-kids-thread/470/153 "2021-11-18T18:57:54Z")
> [@NormalDan](#): > > that we canā€™t feel it because itā€™s not accelerating and weā€™re spinning right along with it, Obvs not a brag on you parentā€™s physics knowledge thread. Objects on the surface of a spinning object do in fact, undergo acceleration. Ninjaā€™d. Quick google gives : The centripetal acceleration is **about 3.39 cm/sec^2** at the equator (Iā€™m getting this number from the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics), which is about 0.35% the acceleration of gravity at the surface of the earth, g. 3.39 vs 980. Higher latitudes may be less, I am guessing. ETA [https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/188747/what-is-the-acceleration-due-to-earths-rotational-and-orbital-movements](https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/188747/what-is-the-acceleration-due-to-earths-rotational-and-orbital-movements) ---
**Author:** ![NormalDan](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/normaldan/32/1013_2.png) [@NormalDan](https://community.goactuary.com/u/NormalDan)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2021, 7:18pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/brag-about-your-kids-thread/470/154 "2021-11-18T19:18:01Z")
So are you suggesting we can feel the earth spinning? ---
**Author:** ![Marcie](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/marcie/32/8789_2.png) [@Marcie](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Marcie)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2021, 8:16pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/brag-about-your-kids-thread/470/155 "2021-11-18T20:16:55Z")
I feel the sky tumblinā€™ down, a-tumblinā€™ down ---
**Author:** ![SteveGrondin](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/stevegrondin/32/3257_2.png) [@SteveGrondin](https://community.goactuary.com/u/SteveGrondin)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2021, 10:19pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/brag-about-your-kids-thread/470/156 "2021-11-18T22:19:49Z")
No, just giving a quantification to why you canā€™t, even at the equator. At least while you are not drinking. ---
**Author:** ![T-roy](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/t-roy/32/9180_2.png) [@T-roy](https://community.goactuary.com/u/T-roy)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 1:41am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/brag-about-your-kids-thread/470/157 "2021-11-19T01:41:20Z")
I sent a text to my kids with a selfhey in my new job/office. My D2 says ā€œYou are so handsome!ā€ Good work day! ---
**Author:** ![1695814](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/1695814/32/38506_2.png) [@1695814](https://community.goactuary.com/u/1695814)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 12:49am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/brag-about-your-kids-thread/470/158 "2021-11-21T00:49:10Z")
> [@1695814](#): > > Daughter had a solo at a recent choral concert. She nailed it. Iā€™ve debated whether to share this or notā€¦ but Iā€™m so beside myself with pride that I feel compelled to [do so](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AuYCSqslHVYdHJo4Ed1K-LLPbdKydOrX/view). ā† clicky clicky > **commentary, credits, and text** > > Commentary by the choir director: ā€œIn the song, the poet is reminiscing about their life and the friends and the family that they remember in their past and their youth and then we have once again this connection because when itā€™s all said and done we are all one family in God.ā€ > > Only in Sleepā€¦ Bethel Choir > Ēriks EÅ”envalds > Text by Sara Teasdale > > Only in sleep I see their faces, > Children I played with when I was a child, > Louise comes back with her brown hair braided, > Annie with ringlets warm and wild. > Only in sleep Time is forgottenā€” > What may have come to them, who can know? > Yet we played last night as long ago, > And the doll-house stood at the turn of the stair. > The years had not sharpened their smooth round faces, > I met their eyes and found them mildā€” > Do they, too, dream of me, I wonder, > And for them am I too a child? ---
**Author:** ![NerdAlert](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/nerdalert/32/683_2.png) [@NerdAlert](https://community.goactuary.com/u/NerdAlert)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2021, 2:34am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/brag-about-your-kids-thread/470/159 "2021-12-09T02:34:01Z")
My 6yo lost his first tooth, and not just any kid can do that! ---
**Author:** ![tommie.frazier](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@tommie.frazier](https://community.goactuary.com/u/tommie.frazier)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2021, 6:30am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/brag-about-your-kids-thread/470/160 "2021-12-09T06:30:05Z")
Whatā€™s the going rate? My younger kid we bumped up to dollar coins. [Previous page](https://community.goactuary.com/t/brag-about-your-kids-thread/470.md?page=7) [Next page](https://community.goactuary.com/t/brag-about-your-kids-thread/470.md?page=9)