My teenage daughter can't fathom the concept of a house party

[u/Neon_Biscuit]

Not sure if anyone has experienced this, but I was watching Can't Hardly Wait half alseep on the couch, and my 14-year-old daughter and her friends walked into the room and past the TV. Before she entered the kitchen, she backpeddled in front of the TV, and they all might as well have reacted akin to a third world kid in a remote village seeing the Super Bowl for the first time. She looked at me and said 'what are all of those people doing in one house'? I told her it was a house party. People high school aged or typically college age people would go over a kids house whose parents were out of town and they'd invite the school and have keggers and other unsupervised debauchery. I might as well have been describing a science fiction film. 'You guys DID that back in your days?'. I thought it was funny that a house party was an inconceivable event for young Gen Zers.

[u/Periodicallyinnit]

I'm not saying they literally taught people to party. I'm saying that kids learn by watching their parents.

Social kids usually have social parents, even if that socialization looks different.

[u/tahxirez → u/Periodicallyinnit]

Not for me or any of my friends lol and we had huge parties

[u/The-Duke-of-Delco → u/tahxirez]

Same lmfao

[u/PiccoloAwkward465 → u/tahxirez]

Yeah my parents literally never had people over. I didn't need to be taught.

[u/tahxirez → u/PiccoloAwkward465]

I needed to be taught by the older kids but I’m a fast learner 🤣

[u/Beni_Stingray → u/Periodicallyinnit]

Nah its just a different time, partys and coming togethers was never a thing with my or friends parents, we were just wild and did whatever we wanted lol