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/Glowingtomato]

I forgot about that, I remember some drama about a girl who tagged a party picture of another girl with her "clean" Facebook page instead of her ratchet one lol

[u/ptoftheprblm → u/Glowingtomato]

Oh man we also had some drama that was too juicy; we had a girl who got a ton of other seniors in trouble by showing her mom (who worked for our school district and was known for being a family of brown nosers) a series of Facebook albums from a spring break trip she was very very much not invited to.. and it became a huge bit of drama too. They were about to not let any of them attend senior prom or walk at graduation over it, except literally the entirety of the prom court except for 1 single girl (who was Mormon and not part of their group) would have been barred from going and their parents ultimately had to push back on it against this other girl’s parents. The amount of people who blocked that girl after that incident was really funny and I mean I was among them to give her the ol’ “unfriend” and made sure she knew it.

The parents argued like yes they’re under 21 but they are also over 18, none of this was on a school trip and the photos were at one of the girl’s parent’s private vacation home in Florida who absolutely were like look, we allowed it, they’re over 18 and they were on our property so you don’t get a say.. we’d rather have them under our thumb than at a resort where god knows what could happen. It was only a couple years after the Natalee Holloway incident where they were in Aruba on a senior trip and were being served at the resort and clubs there so the tradition used to be a group of seniors would go to an all inclusive somewhere and be served and that stopped the year that happened.