Upon hearing the news that Jacob disappeared, her and younger child was devastated over the news and cried. Another time, her second child used wandless magic to laugh a flower back to life, which she was pretty pleased with. When her second child performed wandless magic, shattering one of her tea sets, she thought Jacob had done it until they repeated the feat with a vase a few weeks later when Jacob was at school.
When her children were younger, she always bought them Peppermint Toads and Liquorice Wands. As a result, she forbade her children from using magic outside of school, not even allowing them to ride on broomsticks before they started at Hogwarts. She was very strict when it came to upholding the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy and abiding by the Ministry of Magic's Decree for the Reasonable Restriction of Underage Sorcery. She did not believe that the fabled Cursed Vaults at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry truly existed, and appeared to think her oldest son to have been wrong rather than mad.