The wet-nurse was allowed no visitors, not even her own children, to divert her from her duty.
She did say that most of the choices were "for family reasons: connections to her childhood, to her own children".
Years later she would tell her own children that among the first phrases she learned to say was Kodwa silambile.
For Kathleen Wright, from Greenwich, accompanying her grandchildren, it was the first time she had been since taking her own children.
But Sawo, assisted by seven staff members as well as some of her own children, provides food, medical care and schooling.
Beers says she still feels the affects of her kidnapping even though she is 30 now and has her own children.
But she still applied that mentality to her own children, who were born and raised in the United States, where sugar-laden and fattening foods are widely available.
Reports state that the new version will feature a man, Bobby Brady, who is divorced with his own children, and remarried to a woman with her own children.
The drama's title character is a notorious figure from Greek mythology, a sorceress whose main claim to fame is the event that brings down the curtain on Cherubini's opera: She murders her own children.
The 38-year-old mother of four has said that she cares about her people as if they were her own children, and wants to ensure as many of them as possible get the most out of school.
Vulliamy also said her mother neither read her own books to her children nor taught them to draw, but remembers her work being pushed to one side of the table in their home in west London at mealtimes.
To a life of love, happiness and the payback of one day raising her own annoying little children.
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Jolie, 37, writes that she made the choice with thoughts of her six children after watching her own mother, actress Marcheline Bertrand, die too young from cancer.
Jolie, 37, writes that she made the choice with thoughts of her six children after watching her own mother, actress Marcheline Bertrand, die too young from breast cancer.
Ross raised five children of her own who grew up to become extremely "normal and successful children of a superstar, " Wilbekin said.
Anguished about her own failure to have children, she addresses Rivera as though he were her baby.
"They have been there for me, " she said, adding that she now works at the church, attends school and plans to soon move into her own apartment with her children.
He imagines by now, at 41, she would have been married with children of her own.
By and large, there was a fair chance that a daughter would go on to have children of her own, she said.
She married late in life and had no children of her own, but she loved her nieces and nephews as if they were her own kids.
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She had never started a fire before and Mr Riordan suggested that "she obviously loves children and young people and has brought up five children of her own".
His mother, Mamie Connolly, soon tired of looking after two children on her own and walked out on both of them when Billy was barely four years old.
With five children, 15 grandchildren (one a nursing student at Marian, despite having four children of her own) and 26 great-grandchildren assembling for the big event, Zedan was preparing a banquet.
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Ms. Jolie, 37, writes that she made the choice with thoughts of her six children after watching her own mother die too young from breast cancer.
There was also a finding that she had benefited from the unpaid taxes since they allowed her to devote her own earnings towards the expenses of getting a PhD and sending her children to private schools.
"She accepts that she has put her own interests ahead of that of the children, but that they must be her main priority now, " he said.
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Kim interest in parenting comes from her own experience as a mother of two young children.
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There is Sandra Boller-Bibrey who decided with her husband, after raising 7 of their own children, to adopt 4 sisters, ages 9-15.
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When her husband died unexpectedly from the plague at Mainz while on perpetual military campaign, Elizabeth was forced to take Palatine affairs firmly into her own hands, vociferously continuing to lay claim to the disputed territories on behalf of her children.
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