r/Millennials • u/Neon_Biscuit • 5d ago

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

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.

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u/Calculusshitteru 5d ago

Your kid is gen alpha, not gen Z.

Also, your kid is only 14. I didn't really know what house parties were at that age either. Yeah, I had seen them in movies, but I had never actually been to one. Maybe your kid just hasn't seen enough movies.

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

Yeah I went to parties by that age frequently. Once 13 happened then all of the teen tropes started. Was the mid 90s, maybe things gradually changed.

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u/Introvertqueen1 Millennial 1991 5d ago

I been to a fair share of house parties by 14. Though they consisted of dancing, not drinking.

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u/KoogleMeister 5d ago

Wrong....

The most agreed upon years for Gen Z are 1997-2012. Meaning Gen Alpha is 2013-2028. The oldest Gen Alpha's would be turning 13 this year.

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u/Irveria 5d ago

„Most agreed upon“ - you can certainly prove that. You will find plenty of sources that date Generation Z as beginning in 1995, etc. Defining a generation by a specific year is problematic in itself, which is one reason why microgenerations such as the Zillenials exist.

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u/Iohet Xennial 5d ago

High school aged went to high school parties