Baltimore #MomoftheYear Says She's No Hero

The Baltimore mother who earned the moniker #MomoftheYear on social media after she was caught on video smacking her son upon discovering he was participating in the riots said she's no hero.

"My intention was just to get my son and have him be safe," Toya Graham told CBS This Morning. "There's some days that I'll shield him in the house just so he won't go outside, and I know that I can't do that for the rest of my life. . . . To see my son come across the street with a rock in his hand, at that point, I just lost it. "

Still, anyone who watched the video knew that this single mother of six children wasn't to be ignored — and that her son likely knew that better than anyone.

"I'm a no-tolerant mother," she said. "He knew he was in trouble. He said when 'I seen you,' he said, 'Ma, my instinct was to run.'"

Graham, whose 16-year-old son had "been in trouble before" and "doesn't have a perfect relationship with the police in Baltimore," knows one thing for certain, and it's that she didn't want him to be another Freddie Gray: "I hope that he understands the seriousness of what was going on last night. . . . Two wrongs don't make a right."

And as for her response to all the accolades she's received from Twitter and Facebook across the nation?

"Friends and everybody are making comments and saying, 'You shouldn't be mad at your mother; you should give her a hug,'" said Graham, who added that it's not easy for a lot of mothers out there. "You can talk blue in your face to your children, but at the end of the day, they gonna make their own decisions. As parents we just have to follow through to make sure that's where they supposed to be at."

But still, there's one person she thinks won't appreciate her tough-love approach: "Oh my god, my pastor is going to have a fit!"