Posted on 04/29/2015 12:36:46 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
The Baltimore mom heralded for smacking her 16-year-old son at the Monday riots says she doesn't feel like a hero. In a CBS News exclusive, Toya Graham explained why she angrily confronted her son in an incident captured on a video that went viral.
"To see my son come across the street with a rock in his hand, I think at that point, I just lost it," Toya Graham said Wednesday on "CBS This Morning." “He knew he was in trouble,” says Baltimore mom.
The single mother of six was unofficially dubbed "mom of the year" by many on social media, and publications like the New York Post displayed her image on the cover with the headline, "Forget the National Guard... Send in the Moms."
"I was pretty much just telling him, 'How dare you do this,'" Graham said.
When she first saw the video of herself, she thought, "'Oh my god, my pastor is going to have a fit.' That's it." At the end of the day, her intention was to bring her son to safety.
"He has been in trouble before, and he knows right from wrong. He's just like the other teenagers that doesn't have the perfect relationship with the police officers in Baltimore City, but you will not be throwing rocks and stones at police officers," Graham said. "At some point, who's to say that they don't have to come and protect me from something, you know? And they might not want to knowing that you're bringing harm to them. Two wrongs don't make a right, and at the end of the day I just wanted to make sure I had gotten my son home."
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
Proverbs 22:15 Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Proverbs 23:13 Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
Proverbs 23:14 Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
Proverbs 29:15 The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
Mom got it right ... and her son ought to thank her for keeping him from getting into anything STUPID and dangerous.
Agreed!
Oh, no, you di’n! Whack!
Good for that mom.
Sorry lady, you raised a thug, through no fault of your own, and without a husband, no doubt.
I agree.
I hope the kid is not too stupid to understand how much his mother loves him.
That woman gives me some hope that the African community is not completely lost.
Single mother of six? I’m afraid she’s part of the problem not the solution. I mean it was gratifying watching her beat up her kid, but she could do us all a big favor by having her tubes tied.
D@mn, she opened a can, didn’t she?
She needs to marry the father
Shepherd, there are things about raising a boy properly that you just don’t understand. Stay out of it. Or do you want her siccing the Adult Protection Services on you when you raise your voice to one of your friends. She’s doing the best she can, and I applaud her. Poor Boy though. He will never live this down.
A can of whoop**s! She probably saved her son’s life. Hopefully he honors her and fears God.
polygamy is still illegal, for now
I understand this mother’s reaction completely.
She has a rough road ahead of her trying to keep him on the straight and narrow. But, for now, her son is still young enough to get a whoopin.
Not exactly true. Depends entirely on the type of rod and how it is wielded.
Marry which father though? With six kids, most likely there are more sires than just one.
“The single mother of six was unofficially dubbed ‘mom of the year...’”
Please forgive me if I don’t join in the apotheosis.
“’He has been in trouble before, and he knows right from wrong.’”
But does he know is dad?
Where IS his dad?
It would be good, imo, if all people living in poverty [and otherwise] cared this much for their kids.
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