Luann Udell of Keene, NH, used just that method when her son, Doug, was 12.
My favourite speech has to be the one when her son got lost in the desert.
She was shocked when her son said he wanted to go to all of them.
Sandberg says that the impact of popular culture struck her when her son was playing a Star Wars game.
Mrs Lavery, of Renfrew, also told of the agonies she had faced since last April when her son died.
When her son George went to the inquest his emotions were running high.
When her son was ready to go to college, she started dating again.
Autism was not well-known when her son, Matthew, now 22, was growing up.
Lauren Booth, 24, was asleep when her son Aaron drank the poisonous liquid at their home in Norris Close, Huddersfield.
"He needed the time in the day in order to create, " said Ackerman, who divorced when her son was a teenager.
She even jumped out of the shower when her son's surgeon came into the room, talking to him with dripping hair.
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When her son announced he wanted to be a professional DJ instead of joining the family restaurant business, Sapeta was cautiously supportive.
But grant requests poured in, so she hired a grants manager in 1997, and when her son was born last year, a full-time director.
Inspector Pilecki compared Ms. Hodge, who grew up in the Bronx, dropped out of college when her son was born, but eventually went on to earn a B.
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She got involved as a volunteer in the movement when her son became a cub scout and she was asked to help children complete their first aid badge.
When her son was born a decade ago, Suzette Trimmer, now 39, became frantic searching for a live-in nanny to take care of the child while she worked as a college administrator.
Amidor, a mother of three, was making her order at a pizza restaurant, when her son, Schoen, who was then around 4 years old, proceeded to have a fit because she wanted him to drink water with his meal and he wanted a Yoo-hoo.
She told me that she had cried for days when her oldest son, Tamerlan, told her that he wanted to move out, going against her culture's tradition of the son staying in the house with the mother until marriage.
When her oldest son, now eight, first started having trouble breathing, she thought he had a cold.
The Center was founded by Sibongile Mazibuko who was moved to take action when her own son was diagnosed with HIV.
When her own son was admitted to the hospital she accessed his medical records in violation of the law and was fired.
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When her older son was in elementary school, for example, he was moved from a mainstream school to a special ed school.
Raquel Nelson was recently convicted for the death of her son when she crossed a busy intersection and her son was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver.
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O'Dell, who has a master's degree in education from Clemson University, began her therapy career when confronted with her infant son, Jacob.
Traci Randall said the only time she remembers speaking to her next-door neighbor was when he yelled at her son because he thought he had shot an air pellet at his Jeep.
Ma Barker was fresh off a string of high-profile robberies throughout the Midwest when she and her son Fred headed down to Ocklawaha to hide out.
She can flex her wrist back on itself and she dislocated her pelvis when she gave birth to her son.
Mendez told the Post she initially wasn't allowed to see her son when she went to the station.
When she found out her son was being bullied, she climbed over the fence into his camp and smuggled him out.
So it was no surprise when she saw in her son the first signs of a budding disc jockey.
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