THE BUN KER FAMILY: Cindy, Michael, Teri and Isaac.
“It was a really, really little kid book,” Isaac says, “and I couldn’t even read
that.”
experiments. But both brothers have a cool confidence, one that they had
to have gotten from their moms.
But Isaac worked hard, his moms say, and he improved. He had some
hurdles – like one year where he did nothing but watch Netflix during
class – but in the end, he says his moms helped him.
Michael starts college this fall at Oregon State University, where he’s
studying biology. He wants to be a doctor, like Teri. Isaac will graduate
from technical school in the summer. He plans to be a firefighter. Cindy
and Teri have reason to be proud.
“They constantly nag me a lot about school,” he says, “but if they didn’t I
wouldn’t do anything at school.”
Michael and Isaac, now adults, are markedly different – while Michael
seems like he’d be the one in the front of the chemistry lab diligently fol-
lowing instructions, Isaac seems like he’d be in the back, creating his own
November 2012
“When you become a parent, your entire life gets turned on its head,” Teri
says, “but it’s even better than we expected." §
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