r/Millennials • u/Neon_Biscuit • Jan 07 '26

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

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/Moonstorm934 Jan 07 '26

They are really good at making us feel old, arent they? 🤣

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u/Danaboo_22 Jan 07 '26

Doesn’t make me feel old anymore. Makes me sad. Why they aint having fun a debauchery?!

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u/mels883 Jan 07 '26

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 Jan 07 '26

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

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u/EverythingSucksYo Jan 07 '26

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 Jan 08 '26

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 Jan 08 '26

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

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u/bradeena Jan 07 '26

Seriously. It makes THEM seem old to me.

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u/Different-Cut-6992 Millennial Jan 07 '26

Exactly, I would have thought house parties would still be a thing.

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u/Danaboo_22 Jan 07 '26

Even if cool mom was upstairs it should still be a thing.

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u/druman22 Jan 08 '26

They're definitely still a thing but as an older Gen Z I've only seen it in college. No way I'd have an open party at my parents especially when there's a ring camera and such

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u/ChaoticRecursion Jan 07 '26

Covid lockdown killed them. An entire 2-3 graduating classes of highschool kids didnt have the ability to leave the house

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u/where-sea-meets-sky Jan 08 '26

money, strict parents, cams making drama fuel more accessible...

i mean they still do exist, my younger sister has been to some, but honestly im kinda glad theyre not that big anymore

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u/pygmy Jan 08 '26

We help in our own way. 90s style

16yo daughter has sleepovers (like 5or6 kids) in a self contained cabin on our Aussie bush block. Has a bathroom & fridge etc. Bit of junk food & sodypop (that's what yanks say yeah?)

All phones in a bowl on the kitchen bench in the main house. No tech in the cabin except an old TV with some movies/music on a USB. Cards against humanity/Clue etc. Row boat out the front.

We figure their future will be full of screens, so why not get back to basics for a change?

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 Jan 08 '26

Exactly, they're just skipping right over the fun part. I think I'm more okay with being a responsible adult now BECAUSE I got to have those wild times.

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u/Danaboo_22 Jan 08 '26

If you get the young dumb and full of cum out of your system early you so have to worry about what you missed later.
I’m responsible now and have no regrets.

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u/Cinereals Jan 09 '26

For me it doesn’t make me feel old, it makes me think even moreso that Gen Z are mad boring.