"If she is ever allowed back on social media, she'll definitely think twice about anything she posts," she said. "She actually asked for a spanking instead she begged for a spanking," she said.īut by day two, Billingsley said, her daughter had brushed off the incident. After she explained the punishment to her daughter, the girl was "devastated" for a day, Billingsley said. "Because she had been warned," she added, "I felt I needed to hit her where it hurt most."Īnd hurt it did. What the girl didn't realize, she said, was that the photo might still send the wrong message to a future employer or prove attractive to a predator, who "can see it and think this is a little girl who likes to drink." "I thought she knew better, but in her mind, she thought, 'I'm not drinking, what's the problem?'" Billingsley said. It has seen 11,000 shares from Facebook alone, not to mention attention from various media outlets.īillingsley told that in the past, she had warned her daughter, who does not have her own Facebook account, to be careful about what she posted to the photo-sharing site and was surprised to see the vodka photo. Bye-bye."īillingsley then posted the same photo - in which only the lower half of her daughter's face was visible - to her own personal Facebook page and it has since gone viral. (Courtesy ReShonda Tate Billingsley)Īt first, it might seem like your typical case of modern parental discipline: A Texas mom has prohibited her 12-year-old daughter from using the photo-sharing site Instagram after she caught the girl posting a photo of herself holding an unopened bottle of vodka with a caption that read "I sure wish I could drink this."īut it's what ReShonda Tate Billingsley did next that has people buzzing: Billinglsey, a prominent Houston-area author, had her daughter post a new picture of herself to Instagram earlier this month holding a sign reading, "Since I want to post photos of me holding liquor, I am obviously not ready for social media and will be taking a hiatus until I learn what I should (and) should not post. Author ReShonda Tate Billingsley had her daughter post this picture to Instagram.