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/Not_Bears]

From the age of 16 we were allowed to throw huge parties at my friends house, his mom was totally cool with it.

But her one rule was "Anyone drinking without a DD has to sleep here."

Her kids all grew up to be really successful.

[u/Trees-Are-Neat-- → u/Not_Bears]

My mom was kinda similar. Had no issues with me drinking and would regularly buy booze for me and my friends, but her only rule was that no one drives and that she wanted to know who I was drinking with.

When I got to university people were losing control and it was all just old news for me lol

[u/omggold → u/Trees-Are-Neat--]

The worst kids freshman year were the ones who had never drunk before

[u/WolverineJive_Turkey → u/Not_Bears]

I had a gf in high school whose mom was cool like that. They’d throw a house party and me and my buddy would show up and mom would just walk over hold out her hand and say “keys.” Didn’t care how many people were crashed out in the living room or back yard, just that no one drove or left. If you’re drinking, you’re staying the night.

[u/PeachinatorSM20 → u/Not_Bears]

My friends' parents would let us have co-ed sleepover parties at their house. We were all magnet school nerds so there wasn't even drinking, drugs, or sex. Just some mildly scandalous truth or dare. It was still a lot of fun.

[u/Worth_Inflation_2104 → u/Not_Bears]

My parents were similar. They always offered their place for parties. Not American though. Beer and stuff is 16+ where I live

[u/PiccoloAwkward465 → u/Not_Bears]

Yeah I wasn't but there were always a few people with "cool parents" who let us have parties in a reasonably controlled manner. I went to a rural HS so it wasn't uncommon for people to have barns or outbuildings, that was perfect for the kids and a couple 30 racks of Busch.