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Zoe: my mom is a computer scientist

Finn: I am a scientist

Zoe: well I am a vampire

Madison: there is no such thing as a vampire

Zoe: well my dad wears all black and says that he is a vampire

And I have vampire teeth

Madison: your teeth are just sharp

(I really wish I could remember the rest... In my next car I am installing a built in system for recording our kids' conversations!)

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"Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand."
Chinese Proverb

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Dr. Amy Ashurst Gooch               http://www.csc.uvic.ca/~agooch
Assistant Professor                 amy.a.gooch at gmail.com
Computer Science                    amygooch at uvic.ca
University of Victoria              agooch at cs.uvic.ca             


   (250)-483-5941    (Canada)
   (801)-649-3923    (SLC Virtual)
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The future

I have been thinking of the things I want for Zoe and Finn in the future...

I want them to be told every day they are beautiful people... Not just on the outside, but thru the way they interact with others, the way they think.

I want them to believe they are scientists... At their very nature they should always question, always be curious, never take the easy answer if they have any suspicions that it is not right or solved

I want them to be artists... We all need to have a creative side, we all need to express ourselves, and I want them to always feel empowered to follow their own creative path

I want the to understand and be comfortable with numbers and their power

I want them to be comfortable reading and writing and willing to do so frequently

I want them to hug each other every day... I give them my unconditional love, but I want them to know they can also rely on each other

I want them to never be afraid to demand what they want as well as what they need

I want them to be aware of the world around them.. It is easy to watch our own sphere of existence, but we need to always be aware of other people and things close as well as far away.

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"Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand."
Chinese Proverb

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Dr. Amy Ashurst Gooch               http://www.csc.uvic.ca/~agooch
Assistant Professor                 amy.a.gooch at gmail.com
Computer Science                    amygooch at uvic.ca
University of Victoria              agooch at cs.uvic.ca             


   (250)-483-5941    (Canada)
   (801)-649-3923    (SLC Virtual)
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My latest Comic Tycoon creation

Zoe and Finn,

at some point in your lives when you look back on your childhood, you'll probably not remember, but at some point I was manning/creating/suffering with some code for iPhone and iPad apps.. this is what I'm working on now...  

Sent from Comic Tycoon

Dream * Create * Publish

Sent from my iPad

 

Fakies

Zoe found this neck support and made boobies out of it

Tourist in your own town

We played tourist and went to miniature world and the maritime museum...