Like I said earlier, he was very involved with his children. When his kids
had homework he was the guy to help, being that he graduated with an
engineering degree he knew much about math and science. The other subjects
on the other hand were a bit shifty. From his child Shannon, sometimes his
only seemed to make the homework more complicated; and more than once
did she cry in frustration at the inability to understand what he was saying.
Although there was a time when he showed her a live demonstration of how
to add and subtract negative
numbers by moving her body along
an imaginary number line and
turning around (180 degrees) every
time the sign changed. She was so
thrilled to really know how to do the
math! He was actually his high
schools valedictorian.
John Gibbons, Jack’s son
inherited a great skill from his
father. He inherited mechanical
engineering and now, like his father
works on cars all the time at his own
shop, where he is the boss of
everything (See I told you it was a
great skill that he inherited.) Before
Jack worked on cars he worked on
computers. He needed help from his
wondrous children sometimes, especially when bleeding the breaks. He
wasn’t especially conversational with the kids until they were older; so his
kids would always enjoy it when he asked for help; which is a characte ɥ