Parents Gone Wild on Campus....

[digmedia]

<p>Unbelievable:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=308021[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=308021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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I can tell you firsthand that mom’s weekend, in particular, is crazy! I assume you’re taking about drunken parents? It definitely happens. There are parents who come down specifically to buy their kids beer, and then party with them. Dad’s come down and play cornhole with the kids on dad’s weekend, and the mom’s come out for bar hopping on mom’s weekend. No joke, some of the mom’s looked like streetwalkers, and while I’m not a drinker, I heard several stories of mom’s at bars trying to hook up with frat boys. One dorm last year even had a sign hanging from the window that said “Welcome MILFs!!”

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<p>Any ideas WHY people would go so crazy?</p>

[Thaitan]

<p>I think it’s pretty stupid. Parents do this at Illinois too. Last semester, some dad was playing beer pong in my suite mates room.</p>

[walkinghome]

<p>hmmm, maybe he was the parent that posted here on the parents forum last fall.</p>

<p>As far as why they go crazy - you know how there are often conversations on this forum about how when students come home from college they resort to their adolescent behavior and parents treat them again like children? I think there are parents that get on a campus and flash back on their wild times and resort to their college behavior. Same parents that want to be friends with their kids instead of showing them how adults should behave.</p>

[MotherOfTwo]

<p>Wow! I can’t wait to go to Swarthmore Parents Weekend in a few weeks to enjoy all of the wild partying with the kids and the other moms :rolleyes:</p>

[interesteddad]

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Any ideas WHY people would go so crazy?

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<p>I believe the operative expression is: Once a fratboy, always a fratboy. Or sorority whatever.</p>

<p>Those moms probably associate college with getting drunk and going home with drunk fratboy for a romp.</p>

[mini]

<p>As one ages, it is important to have more “whole grains” in the diet.</p>

[bagoshells]

<p>By the way, “cornhole” is a regional game, like beanbag toss, that’s big in Cincinnati. It’s not what you think.</p>

[Opie_ofMaybery2]

<p>“Any ideas WHY people would go so crazy?”</p>

<p>Any ideas on WHY you see this as a problem? Should the concern be about you? </p>

<p>If I want to share a beer or two with my kids, why should you care? If somebody else’s dad or mom wants to party with their kids, why should you care? Some parents actually like their kids and some kids actually like their parents. I know that’s a shock to your system. sorry.</p>

[frazzled1]

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Those moms probably associate college with getting drunk and going home with drunk fratboy for a romp.

You know, I’m anti-underage drinking, not really pro-Greek, and don’t enjoy alcohol myself. But I think that is a very unfair assessment, and hope you were joking.</p>

[corranged]

<p>I visited my sister during Parents’ Weekend once, and a lot of the parents went partying with their kids. Mine didn’t, and it seemed a little strange, but they all had fun together. Some of the parents are alums who go back and party just like they did years ago in the exact same frat houses. It was interesting, and not at all something that would happen in my family, but these families all seemed fine with it.</p>

[barrons]

<p>We call those football weekends at UW.</p>

[interesteddad]

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But I think that is a very unfair assessment, and hope you were joking.

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<p>OK. Duly noted.</p>

<p>Just out of curiousity, how would you assess the behavior described in the original post?</p>

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No joke, some of the mom’s looked like streetwalkers, and while I’m not a drinker, I heard several stories of mom’s at bars trying to hook up with frat boys.

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[Opie_ofMaybery2]

<p>“Just out of curiousity, how would you assess the behavior described in the original post?”</p>

<p>Unless the poster has some personal experience with streetwalkers, how does he know? And “I heard” is usually the most unreliable form of information out there. </p>

<p>I think the young man may have issues of his own to deal with. Sweep your own porch, before you sweep others.</p>

[kluge]

<p>If you keep your ears open you’ll hear lots of stories about women trying to hook up with frat boys - mostly from frat boys. Oddly, I don’t place a lot of confidence in the strict accuracy of most of those tales. As for the moms looking like streetwalkers, I’ve seen that in the pickup queue at the curb at the local kindergarten. Eye of the beholder, I guess.</p>

[TheDad]

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As for the moms looking like streetwalkers, I’ve seen that in the pickup queue at the curb at the local kindergarten. Eye of the beholder, I guess.

I’ve heard of pre-schools that are so expensive that moms take second jobs.</p>

[jmmom]

<p>Good one, TheDad.</p>

[ag54]

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I believe the operative expression is: Once a fratboy, always a fratboy. Or sorority whatever.</p>

<p>Those moms probably associate college with getting drunk and going home with drunk fratboy for a romp.

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<p>Really insulting and crass post. That’s all I can say…</p>

[dke]

<p>We had a MOthers’ Weekend at my womens’ college back in the dark ages. We took them to our favorite bar in Cambridge where COOL was the operative word. No one could believe that we would take our mothers there, but then the guys starting asking them to dance. It was one of the best college times we ever had! (they got more attention than WE did…)</p>

[emeraldkity4]

<p>Now I am admit I was seriously miffed when my D reneged on her promise to get me a pass for Renn Fayre.
When it came time- she pleaded amnesia-
( I think she was going to have me go the year she was away)
I didn’t want to get drunk and nekked with college boys ohgodno- college boys? :rolleyes:
But I had heard so many stories about glow opera- and costumes and seen pictures of how the library was made into a dragon… that I really wanted to see it for myself.</p>

<p>Oh well-</p>

[weenie]

<p>Hooking up with a frat boy — ewwwww. :(</p>