A
mom asked two teens at the movies to quiet down.when they didn't, she
let them know that they ruined her night and that she couldn't afford to
go to the movies with her daughters again.days later, she learned their
mother was trying to track her down.when she heard why, she was
speechless.
Rebecca Boyd went to a movie at
Tannehill Premiere Cinema 14 in Bessemer, Alabama, but instead of a nice
evening out with her 12-year-old daughter, the mom was left annoyed by
the teens seated behind her in the theater. Much to her dismay, they
were loud and kept tapping her seat. When she couldn’t take anymore, she
turned around and politely asked them to stop.
Instead
of heeding the mom’s request, the teens responded rudely and continued
to misbehave during the movie. Following the film, Rebecca decided to
let the kids know they had completely ruined her night. Her husband was
laid-off. That movie experience was probably the last one her family
would be able to have for a while, and she wanted the teens to know how
unhappy she was with their disrespect.
After
making her frustrations known, Rebecca Boyd thought the incident was
over. But, she was mistaken. The rude teens’ brother had witnessed the
encounter, and he was going to tell their mother. When Kyesha Smith
Wood’s teenage son told her what happened, she was taken aback. This
wasn’t something she could let go. So, Kyesha took to Facebook to find
the woman who had scolded her 13-year-old daughter and stepdaughter.
“This
is a long shot, but I’m looking for a woman that was at Tannehill
Premier,” Kyesha began, giving the details about the time and location
of the movie showing. She went on to explain that she had dropped the
girls off at the movies with her son, who later told her, much to her
“humiliation and embarrassment,” that her girls were “rude and obnoxious
during the movie,” and she wanted to find the woman who had approached
them about their behavior.
“The woman I’m
looking for addressed them and asked them to be quiet and they were
disrespectful,” Kyesha continued. “If you are this woman, please message
me.” Kyesha posted the message publicly to her own profile as well as
the McAdory-McCalla Community News Facebook page.
It
was then shared on the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office page. And, it
eventually reached Rebecca Boyd. When she read the rest of Kyesha’s
social media message, she knew she had to contact her.
“I
can assure you that these girls are being strongly dealt with and
appropriately punished. This rude, disrespectful, and awful behavior is
unacceptable, and they owe you an apology,” Kyesha wrote in her public
message, hoping to find the woman her girls had disrespected. “My
husband and I are having them write your apology letter tonight and we
would like to pay for your next movie and snacks out of their allowance.
Please message me if this is you. I apologize profusely for their
disrespect.
Kyesha admits the entire ordeal had
quite an effect on her girls. “My girls are so mortified. They are
humiliated. And, that’s okay because I told them, ‘You know what, you’re
not going to do this again,’” she said. But, she’s grateful that
Rebecca took action. “She’s the most gracious, kind and forgiving woman.
I am so humbled by that, and I’ve been telling people the real hero of
the story is her,” Kyesha said. “She took it upon herself to correct my
girls and no one else around them did.”
Kyesha
was also pretty proud of herself as a mother after she used her
children’s own tools to effectively discipline them. “Mom broke the
Internet!” she laughed, according to ABC. “They do Instagram, Facebook,
and Twitter, and they master it all. I’m like, ‘You are never going to
get 180,000 likes! So, just act right, use it responsibly, because
obviously, I am doing something better than you.”
The
girls learning their lesson isn’t the only good to come of Kyesha’s
post either. The Boyd family even got a few job offers, and the message
also resonated with parents everywhere. As Rebecca said, Kyesha’s post, a
perfect example of parental responsibility, shows there are good people
in the world who care about what kind of kids they are raising.
It’s
just some good, old-fashioned parenting, the moms say. When you see a
child behaving badly, you call them out. When you are the parent and
find out about your child’s bad behavior, you hold them accountable and
make them apologize. That’s how you get a happy ending for everyone.
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