8-year-old kid apologises after bumping into a customer in the grocery store, only to be scolded by his mom for saying sorry: ‘Don't apologise, it's his mistake he didn't see you’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Aug 9, 2025 10:00 AM EDT

We all know that the best and most efficient way to teach your children something is by setting an example for them. If you want your children to learn manners, the first thing you have to do is lead the way and show them how it is supposed to be done. 

Kids learn so much just from looking at their parents, for better and for worse. We all have qualities we would love to pass down to our children, and qualities we never want them to see, and it's up to us what they end up being exposed to and what they steer clear of.

It takes a ton of self-work and a lot of effort, but it can be done.

Some parents do none of that self-work and apply minimal effort, and it shows, which is exactly what happened in the story below. Not only did this entitled mom refuse to allow her kid to apologise for his mistake of bumping into a stranger at the grocery store, she actually reprimanded him when his first response was to say sorry.

She actually taught him the opposite of manners, and that left the stranger feeling sorry for this kid's future…

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    Kid bumped into me at the grocery store and his mother handled it in the worst way possible

    Last weekend I was grocery shopping and I was walking down the aisle when all of a sudden a child that was running between the aisles
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    bumped into me. I guess he must have been around 8 years old. Now netiher one of us fell or anything, but for the
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    child it was quite the bump, he stumbled backwards a few steps. He looks up and says "sorry mister". Just as I was about to say 'its okay
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    buddy' his mother shows up behind him, grabs him by the wrists and leads him away. I hear her say "Dont apologise, its his mistake he didnt see you."
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    This actually shocked me. This child was behaving perfectly as any polite human being would, yet his mother is steering him
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    towards r de behaviour. The mother has obviously been entitled for who knows how long. Nothing is ever her fault, everyone makes mistakes but her.
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    But it saddens me that this child is now growing up to be just like her. He is learning this entitled behaviour and his politeness is being driven away.
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    Kat_Hglt The fact that he apologized in the first place makes me think he has at least someone in his life who teaches him how to behave properly, and he might
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    understand by himself later how his mother is mistaken. I hope so anyway. He wouldn't be the first kid in history to be ashamed of his parent's terribly entitled and obnoxious behavior.
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    alii66E OP Yeah that makes sense actually.
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    Whityehinkinaboot I would have met them again and said, "hey kiddo, well done for having wonderful manners. Way better than your mama's!"
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    alii66E OP Oh no I am not the confronting type of person.... maybe that would have been best tho
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    Slight-Jaguar-2102 Nah, people will offer all sorts of "should've said" comebacks and whit from the safety of their keyboards. You have no idea how that mom would've reacted. Letting things go or picking your battles IRL is legit, you're good IMO.
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    Character Trouble 708 An example of why people are starting to hate being around other people's kids .......
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    snickerssmores My ex husband always told the kids and I that "only weak people apologize". However, I was raised to respect others. Luckily, I got my children away before he indoctrinated them with the same nonsense.
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    Kakashisith So now kids are being taught to never say sorry and blame others ??
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    fraydawg2001 The reality here is that the kid likely apologizes very frequently to his mom who is never wrong so apologizing isn't an issue for him. Likely very little to do with being polite and more likely condition of the environment he is raised in.
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