Christian Mother's Viral Facebook Apology Teaches Children a Valuable Lesson in Respect

Shawn Schuster : Apr 23, 2015
The Gospel Herald

"My girls are so mortified... and that's okay because I told them, 'You know what, you're not going to do this again.' We truly believe in raising our children on Biblical principles. We give all of the glory of this to God." -Kyesha Smith Wood

(Birmingham, AL)—When Kyesha Smith Wood of Birmingham, Alabama sent her teenage son, daughter, and step-daughter to the movies on Friday night she never would have imagined that her children's bad behavior would result in a viral story with an inspiring and happy ending. (Photo via Gospel Herald)

According to a post made by Wood a few hours after the movie, she was humiliated and embarrassed when her son told her that a woman had approached the children about their rude behavior during the movie. The woman said that her husband had recently lost his job, and this was to be their last movie they could see for a while, but the children had ruined it.

But instead of getting upset at the woman confronting her kids, as many parents would do these days, Wood was thankful and promised that her children would write the woman a note and pay for another movie outing from their own allowance.

"This is a long shot, but I'm looking for a woman that was at Tannehill Premier tonight seeing Cinderella at 7pm," Wood wrote. "I dropped my teenage daughter, step daughter, and son off at the movie. My son later told me, much to my humiliation and embarrassment, that my girls were rude and obnoxious during the movie."

Wood's post was made to look for that woman, who was located, thanks to the Jefferson County Sheriff's office sharing the post on their own Facebook page.

"The woman I'm looking for addressed them and asked them to be quiet and they were disrespectful," Wood wrote in that post. "After the movie she approached my girls and told them that her husband had been laid off and this was the last movie she would be able to take her daughter to for a while and my girls ruined that for her. This rude, disrespectful, and awful behavior is unacceptable and they owe you an apology."

To read more of this story and how the two mothers, who are both Christians, connected through their experience, click here.