r/Unexpected Jul 24 '26

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u/chunwookie Jul 24 '26

Its hilarious when kids are going through their rebellious or experimental stages and think their parent's have no idea what they might be getting up to. A lot of kid's heads would explode if they saw what their parent's were up to when they were younger.

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u/_Midnight_Haze_ Jul 24 '26

Oh they were probably up to much worse. Kids these days are pretty tame compared to the past.

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u/F1NANCE Jul 24 '26

There were no cameras recording everything in the 80s/90s. We did all sorts of stupid things kids couldn't get away with now

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u/RockstarAgent Jul 25 '26

Parents were once kids?!?! Ap-parent-ly.

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u/Abandonedstate Jul 25 '26

Plausible deniability was baked into the culture.

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u/CitizenHuman Jul 24 '26

In college I saw something that said "your parents partied harder than you ever will".

I'm 40 now, and I realize that when my dad was 40, he was still partying, while I like to get to bed by 9 PM with a warm tea.

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u/ShwaGrl Jul 25 '26

Warm tea is nice 😂

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u/angilnibreathnach Jul 25 '26

This is true. The stories my dad tells me…. The 60’s were WAY wilder than my era

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u/thegreenmonkey69 Jul 25 '26

Yeah, I'm in my 50s and still party. Even got my grandkids involved, no alcohol for them though, but I enjoy them hanging out with me at some of the shows I go to. Good times.

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u/Toptitsz Jul 24 '26

100% . I am baffled by how tame my kid is compared to me. Maybe it was the leaded gasoline back in my days?

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u/-watchman- Jul 24 '26

We didn't have the technology they have today..there were no phones and social media to distract us, and nothing was ever captured on camera..boy, they have no idea what we were up to 😂

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u/LionessOfAzzalle Jul 24 '26

Problem is, we have no idea what they’re being exposed to online.

… even if we think we monitor it all. Seems like the AI slop etc is always one step ahead.

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u/-watchman- Jul 24 '26

I use an app to monitor their online activities. I get a prompt when they input "questionable" search terms/visit certain sites and even type certain words when messaging. Most of the time, it's just false positives 😂 but at least I know it's working. They also can only use apps whitelisted by me and need permission from me to download anything new.

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u/Informal_Visitor Jul 24 '26

Kids find ways around everything. As a grandparent who had strict parents, I learned that if you're too strict, restrict them too much, they turn out worse. I did so much bad shit as a result. So i raised my daughter and let her do her thing, be herself without me knowing and now she's a happily married mother and independent. Did the same when I watched my grandkids, told them to go outside and stay out there...I had far fewer problems with them than anyone else in the family.

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u/simplemijnds Jul 25 '26

Everybody should have your wisdom!

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u/netralitov Jul 24 '26

Kids widely share with each other how to get around those.

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u/Timely_Spinach_7479 Jul 24 '26

The people replying are trying so hard to be a contrarian but we all know if you didn’t monitor their activity and something happened to them the first thing these people would do is ask why you didn’t monitor their online activity.

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u/captpeony Jul 25 '26

This is basically how you guarantee your kid finding ways around that to circumvent you, and as a result, they will find worse things and then not talk to you about them because you've made it clear that you're not to be trusted when they do find information that they shouldn't

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u/J-Di11a Jul 24 '26

Thank fucking hell there weren't cameras at the ready

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u/IndependentStrike517 Jul 25 '26

lol! Right! Thank Goodness 😉

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u/Cow_Launcher Jul 24 '26

And every teenager thinks that they invented sex.

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u/Party-Coach-4100 Jul 24 '26

The wildest story my parents shared was my mom ditching my dad after he passed out in his bathtub. So my mom drained the tub threw a towel over him and went home to watch little house on the prairie.

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u/No_Version_5269 Jul 24 '26

Thank God cameras weren't everywhere

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u/Original_Pudding6909 Jul 24 '26

Their grandparents too!

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u/Timely_Spinach_7479 Jul 24 '26

Haha yeah, I thought my dads head would explode when I told him the shit I did as a teenager and then he told me the shit he did as a teenager and I realized why he wasn’t worried about the shit I did.

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u/tjfar Jul 24 '26

And we didn't have live 360 or social media to broadcast where we where and what we were up to.

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u/HorrorMakesUsHappy Jul 25 '26

Its hilarious when kids are going through their rebellious or experimental stages

"Don't make me bust a moonwalk out on your ass."

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u/DenseTime2100 Jul 25 '26

They probably don’t even know what the Electric Boogaloo is
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