Did you go to concerts with your parents?
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Anonymous
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We have taken our teens to concerts before and I feel like I’ve seen social media posts of kids/teens at concerts with their parents.
I think back to my youth and I never went to any concerts with my parents, nor did I want to. Did you? If you also think this is more prevalent now, do you think it is more prevalent because kids are closer to their parents than back in the day? Or because parents are more protective? |
Anonymous
| My mom took me to see Shawn Cassidy and Rick Springfield in concert. Yes, I'm old. |
Anonymous
| Yep! We saw a lot of 90s country acts that my mom and I liked. |
Anonymous
| Yes! Growing up I saw Heart, Journey, Sammy Davis Jr (lol), and Suzanne Vega with my mom! |
Anonymous
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Uh, when I was five. We went to one. Never again - by the time I was a teenager my mother was convinced that if I went to a Debbie Gibson or New Kids on the Block concert I'd not only be offered drugs but pressured into them and sucked into the underworld.
Tl:dr - no, bc my mother was paranoid. |
Anonymous
| Nope, never. But I take my teen to concerts a few times a year. Some of it is proximity, some of it is money, some of it is me taking a more active interest in my teen’s likes than my parents did. When I think back to the few concerts I went to at the same age my kid is now, it was always with an adult, just not MY adults. I loved my parents dearly, but they were not fun when I was a kid. |
Anonymous
We took our tweens to concerts, but not teenagers. I challenge your assumption that parents are closer to kids today - today we have helicopter parents who won't let teens attend without them, whereas back in the day parents allowed teens the freedom and independence to attend concerts without their presence |
Anonymous
| No of course not. But I’m a Gen Xer- no one went to concerts with their mom 😂 |
Anonymous
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I did! She took me to several concerts in middle school. In high school I started going with friends instead, but if there was something that Mom and I both wanted to see, we went together. I think that happened a few times between high school and college. I even went to a couple with my dad.
-Late Gen X (born '78) |
Anonymous
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My parents mostly listened to classical and jazz--they would never have taken me to a concert I wanted to go to! I went to my first concert at 17 with friends.
I took my daughter and a friend to a concert last year when she was 13. We had a lot of fun. I'm more familiar (and like) some of what she listens to than my parents were with my music. I can imagine taking her again. |
Anonymous
I'm 21:18 and a Gen Xer - people absolutely went with their moms or got dropped off/picked up by their moms. |
Anonymous
| Gen X here and I never knew anyone who went to a concert with their parents. This was in the '80s when there really weren't any groups that were marketed toward pre-teens or younger. By the time the '90s rolled around, you had NKOTB and several other performers that were tailored to much younger kids. |
Anonymous
I’m 49, so also a Gen Xer. I saw George Michael, Billy Joel and Elton John (separately and together on their first joint tour) with my parents. |
Anonymous
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No, but my mom came to concerts with me <3
She used to be the cool mom who would drive us to warped tour or buy tickets 3 rows behind us so we could see green day and pretend like our mom wasn't with us. My parents never went to concerts on their own though, that wasn't a thing they did for fun. |
Anonymous
| My dad took me to see KISS when I was 8, then Ozzy and Motley Crue on my 13th birthday. He liked the shows! |