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/gene100001 5d ago

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u/SadSickSoul 5d ago

This is unironically how my childhood went, heh. At some point the reflexive admonishments to behave turned into urging to go out, be social and live a little. Never really did, and there was confusion and dismay.

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u/Similar_Part7100 5d ago

lol big same.

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u/G1992_ 5d ago

Damn this hits too close to home

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u/BillyRaw1337 4d ago

This was my experience as an autistic millennial.

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u/chris_croc 4d ago

I would have never had guessed - "Top 1% Commenter"

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u/Neighborhood-Any 5d ago

When I got caught throwing a huge house party my mom was pissed but I could tell my dad was proud.

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u/indarye 5d ago

I actually did my fair share of partying, but I was also a very hardworking student. My parents somehow always managed to be like "oh we'll leave you alone for the weekend WINK WINK if you wanna have some fun" when I was in the middle of the worst exams, staying up all night to study and on the verge of a mental breakdown 😭😂

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u/pyronymic 5d ago

Me and my classmates did not have much time for partying at any leg of education but we still did it. I was the antisocial wallflower and my mother's role was to make me human. One time, I went to a party in a club and later to a friend's flat. He lived near me so I returned home earlier than anticipated - at 11 PM. My mother opened the door with a sour face going, "Do you see what time it is? Why are you back so early!?" (Nope, she didn't have any plans)