<p>So… the end is here, graduation is in a week, prom is this week.
It is such a big deal for the kids: dates, tuxedo rentals and formal dresses, corsages, dinner reservations, limo rentals, etc…
But what are the kids expectations for prom? and what does really happen in these type of parties?
As a parent I know little about proms…I did not grow up in USA and therefore did not experience it myself.
I just hope D has fun and comes back home safe and happy!</p>
<p>Meet at someone’s home for pre-prom(getting ready, taking pictures), show up at the location in a limo, sit down in a large hall, socialize, take pictures, have dinner, move to the tiny, crowded, hot dance floor for the rest of the night. Then head to an afterparty where there may or may not be alchohol or sexual activity (but honestly I don’t feel like there is pressure to either drink or engage in sexual activity… It’ll be there, but if you know your kid then you shouldn’t be worried)</p>
<p>At my afterparty we ate pizza and watched movies.</p>
<p>I’d like suggestions, from kids or parents, of an after party movie for 10-15 girls at a post-prom sleepover.</p>
<p>I want something…that they wouldn’t have already seen.<br>
Probably ‘coming of age’.</p>
<p>Suggestions?</p>
<p>Or other ideas for the post-prom sleepover?</p>
<p>I’m going to rig the basement with xmas track lights… perhaps put an after dinner mint at each sleeping bag. </p>
<p>Ideas?</p>
<p>We had a ping-pong tournament and then just laughed at crazy infomercials the rest of the night.</p>
<p>We had about 18 kids to our afterparty. The kids ate pizza and watched the recently released Indiana Jones movies. The were terrific. No worries about alcohol.</p>
<p>We ate Chinese food and all the girls took out the uncomfortable hair styles from the evening. Boys stayed at a separate house, made parents more comfortable. The next day everyone went to the beach.</p>
<p>We ate pizza, watched a movie, and got auctioned off to a biker gang from Salsaledo. Very nice guys.</p>