Parents who Party

I was wondering how many people have Parents who party (drink, smoke, drugs, etc.) and how do/did you feel about it growing up? Were they out of control, responsible, mean, abusive, problematic, loud, or just an emotional bomb?

I did not grow up with party parents. In fact my Mom has no idea what pot smells like. My Dad knows but says he has never smoked. I don't think I have ever seen either of my parents drunk.

 

my ex stepdad was a heavy drug user. he smoked pot and snorted coc all the time. it was definitely a problem because he was a really abusive toward my mom, my brother, and i. because of him i was exposed to drugs at a very young age. i remember when he was supposed to be watching my brother and i he would take us to this weird guys house and snort coc while we played with the guys son in the living room. he was extremely paranoid too. like everytime someone knocked on the door when we were over there they would make us all hide in the closet. sometimes they would forget about us and we'd be in there for hours. very scary

 

my parents werent like that.. When they were younger and had no kids, sure they did that..
But then they started popping out babies..

 

My parents weren't bad... they partied and smoked and drank.. but my mom was still a kid when she had us... had my sisters at 15 and 18 and me at 21... So she was still young and wanted to party... My parents were never abusive or mean.. they were just cool heads then... not anymore though.. there lame now

 

just moderate drinkers who go stricter as they got older...then loosened up again once all the kids were grown.

 

my parents didnt do anything and our family was chaotic and crazy..

 

my mom is a heavy pot smoker. she even smoked a lot when she was pregnant with my sister and i. i think it contributed to her not being much of a parental figure, in that she was very leniant with our rules and expectations and such. but as i see it no harm done, i'm an A average student and don't have a habit of making bad choices. my mom and dad are both just really calm laid back people..

 

my parents never really partied except on very rare occassions, such as when we'd cook a pig, get a keg and invite everyone we could think of over. They were almost always the perfect examples of responsible adults. They freely admitted to smoking pot and drinking and being wild as kids (especially my dad; wild hippy!), though, and always told me and my sisters we could do what we want until we proved we couldn't do so responsibly. Kinda odd too, since my dad's a crisis councilor/psychologist specializing in drug rehabilitation, and my mom worked in a mental hospital until it got to her (she couldn't handle parents institutionalizing there children just because they didn't know how to be a parent). So if I came home high or drunk, they both knew instantly.

We never got in trouble, did good in school, so everything was cool between us, and still is. They've finally started lightening up a bit over the last 5 or 6 years. We get together and drink, play cards and stuff, and my sister actually smoked with my dad last year... I chickened out and wouldn't join em... lol

 

I often wondered what it would be like to smoke with my parents but then get turned off by the idea. I think my Mom would LOVE it and my Dad would just get lost (in his mind) listening to music. lol

I remember finding my Dad's 8 Trac collection when I was lil'. He had the best selection of music.

 

my parents never partied.

A few of my friends parents partied hard and they always neglected their kids and yelled at them a lot. Some never wanted them around.

My best bro's mom was cool. She smoked pot and drank on weekends. She let us try pot in her house so she could watch us and deterr us from going to drug dealers and risking getting caught. She was the most responsible party mom i ever met. I'd like to be a mom like her someday. I wouldn't let my kids friends smoke in our house though. Kids run thier mouth too much.

 

my mom wants me to smoke her out sometime. She just got divorced from my dad and he never liked her partying. I think I will the next time I see her.

I miss her a lot now.

 

my parents partied until i was about 7 years old. lots of all weekend benders, lots of booze and smoke. i guess my dad gambled a lot~lost a lot of money to poker games. then they found god, quit partying and became the most uptight, anal retentive, restrictive, abusive, hating people that i've ever known. i liked them a lot better when they partied~they were actually fun and laughed and let us kids be kids.

 

My parents were not really party animals at all......Usually they would have a couple of drinks if they had friends over and sometimes wine with dinner on a holiday, occasionally on a Sunday if we had company.

Think I might of seen my father tipsy only a couple of times and my mother once....she is funny as two drinks and she would be tipsy.

So guess I did not grow up in a party house.

 

my mom was a huge partier i stayed with my grandparents a lot of weekends. She drank a lot on the weekends and now as an adult i know she smoked pot and did coke occasionaly. She was a great mom and when i was in high school was totally understanding at how often I got completley fucked up. It didn't really affect me at all I was a little too wild up untill about a year ago but grew out of it.

 

My dad smoked pot when he was younger, but not any time that I know of after I was born, he did drink a lot though.. My mom was like super straight edge..

 

i party with my mom at festivals all summer, she never partied while i was small.. not with me anyways HAHA but I don't see a prob with it if they don't do it infron of kids and it doesnt interfere with family life or become an addiction................

 

My mom smokes with me once in awhile i even got my conservative chanel suit wearing grandmother to smoke with me-that was a trip heh.

 

i preferred my parents when they were partying. easier to get along with.

 

well, my parents smoked when i was younger but i never realized it until i got older. they didn't go out that much, since they were there for us while we grew up. i always did a lot of sports, and my dad was a coach, so that didn't leave tham a lot of time to go out and drink at bars and what not. but once me and my sister got into highschool, they started going out more, but nothing to bad. there not bad drunks, they just get really talkative. they still smoke, but i feel really arkward if i would smoke with them...they were never abusive.

 

My parents aren't familiar with the concept of "partying". Apart from occasionally getting tipsy with red wine or whiskey.. That's their idea of drinking. Ohh, and my dad smokes cigars.

Of course.. I don't really know much about what their lives were like before I was born. They might have some dark dirty secrets hidden, but I very much doubt that.