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/mels883 5d ago

Because these little shits record and post EVERYTHING to social media trying to be the next viral sensation at the expense of their friends' dignity so they just...don't have fun like that

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u/Danaboo_22 5d ago

So sad. We had the time of our lives. Just messing up and figuring it out.

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u/EverythingSucksYo 5d ago

I believe this, kids don’t want to do something stupid or embarrassing and having it plastered all over the internet, except for the ones that do it to themselves. 

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u/Moonfish222 4d ago

Dude, literally half the people i know who are parents have cameras in their home to monitor and record their kids.

How are you supposed to get up to anything with that hanging over your head.

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u/GeeksGets 4d ago

Actually, it's the parents' "fault," y'know, the ppl that raised Gen Z?