What are we teaching young? Observed on Public Transport Travel

For the first time, I observed this while traveling on public transport. Earlier I wrote on various observations that talked about personnel of public transport system or people traveling and their behaviour. 

The other day I was traveling by local transport bus and the bus was filled and in one of the stops on old lady got into the bus as there was no seat empty, a young girl tried to get from a seat to give the old lady a seat, the girl's mother's instant reaction made me think about the situation. The girl's mother asked the girl to sit instead of giving her seat to the old woman. on one hand, we want the kids to learn values and when they try to put whatever they learned into practice we rebuke them or shame them in public? How do they understand this behavior of adults?