Tammy's story: A woman's struggle and a son's resentment

This video shows how a lower class family struggles day-to-day to survive while their mom walks ten miles to her job everyday in rain or snow. Our society that we live in today builds a dynamic of social norms that we have to abide by whether it be having designer clothes or driving an expensive car.

Matt, the eldest son of Tammy in the video wants to fit in at school, but is embarrassed by where he lives and what his family looks like. He explains in the video how he wants to fix things up, but would rather stay inside and watch TV.

I understand that it may be hard for Matt to fit in when he doesn't have much, but there comes a time when you have to accept where you come from. He disrespects his mother in the video by saying that he doesn't like the way she looks and that he's embarrassed by her image.

No one gets to decide who their parents are, or what class they are raised in, but one should make the best out of a bad situation. Society puts pressures among teens to fit in, and many will do whatever it takes to fit in. This is a sad situation, because when someone doesn't accept where they came from, then they'll never be satisfied.

Matt says in the video how he won't talk to his brother in school because of what he wears. If he wants his family to fit in like he does, maybe he should get a job and get them those things.

Instead of helping out his mom when she struggles daily to feed her children, Matt is only concerned with what his friends think. I hear the phrase teens will be teens, but isn't that just giving them an excuse to act a certain way and escape from their own reality?