Do you ever go out with your parents?

Like to a bar, or a club, or any other socialising-type-place.

It just occurred to me that I'll be 39 when my daughter is 18, which isn't that old really, and wondered if it will be totally mortifying to her if I suggested that we go out together haha.

Yeh, I know, I think about the weirdest things :o:

So, tell me, would you go out with your mother if she asked you to? Or is it a complete social faux-pas?

My mother is a nutter so she'd never suggest such a thing, but I'd be fine going somewhere bar/club/cinema-esque if did (and if I could stand to be in her company more than 5 minutes before we both started arguing as usual).

Reply 1

F.I

14

Go to a nice restaurant and then shopping! Or do it the other way round

Reply 2

Subcutaneous

19

Yeah we tend to go out for a nice meal, and then maybe a cocktail bar. I wouldn't take my mum clubbing as its not her thinbg but we'd go on a night out together when she comes and stays over. I wouldn't have done it if i was 18, but i'm 21 now and living away from home so its somnething I do enjoy

Reply 3

deathbeforeimmortality

16

No. I'll only go out with her shopping because she drives and I can't and she has money and I don't.

Reply 4

Shrubs

2

Hardly ever, my mum and I aren't' really the chummy type.

Reply 5

inkman

7

apart from like family meals no. why go out with my mum when i could go and hang out with my mates? nobody wants to be chums with their parents till their like 35, its DNA you no

Reply 6

Psycho0101

12

Yes, mostly for dinner or travelling. I love it since it means that I get to stay at great hotels around the world like the Burj Al Arab.

Reply 7

concubine

17

Restaurants/pubs every few months or on occasions and very rarely the cinema or something but that's about it.

My dad's come to a few gigs with me and friends too.

For meals... that's it.

Reply 9

Blueflare

18

I go to the pub with my dad sometimes. :awesome:

Edit: my dad is 59 and I'm 20, which is a much bigger difference than you and your daughter so I see no reason you couldn't have the same thing lol.

Reply 10

Steezy

15

My Mum & sister always go out together (50 & 24), they don't go clubbing (because neither are really into that), but they go to bars together quite a lot. My Mum's quite cool though

Reply 11

Kezi-Bear!

My mum and I go shopping and out for lunch together and it's really nice, but I don't think I'd want to go out drinking with her. We get on really well but that would just be weird for both of us.

Reply 12

Militia

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It just occurred to me that I'll be 39 when my daughter is 18, which isn't that old really, and wondered if it will be totally mortifying to her if I suggested that we go out together haha.

Aww

I wonder if my mum thinks like this! Me and mum go shopping and to the cinema together now and again! And out to like..Nandos beforehand! nom nom nom. The other day we went to a nice restaurant/bar in the afternoon for a coffee, chat and to read the newspaper together.
I didn't go out that often with her when I was a teenager- the fear of 'social suicide'...I regret that now and wish I cared less whether it was cool or not to be seen with my mum. :frown:

Reply 13

Nymthae

16

My mum is >50 and i'm 17, hm. Plus, my family don't really get along that well.

My friend however (same age) and her mum is late-30s and would be fairly happy to go out together. Probably just depends on the relationship when growing up.

Reply 14

ÇaBaigne_29

Yeah I go out with my mum. I did of course go through the awkward teenage stage where it is "like sooo embarassing to be near my 'rents, dude" but I got through it and now we go shopping and out for meals and coffees all the time. In fact, just come back from lunch with her. Mmm, lunch :smile:

Anyway, yes parents and children can go out together and have a nice time.

Reply 15

Annie72

17

I never went to clubs with my parents, but there were a few times we all went to the pub together. My mum and I always went grocery shopping though. I miss those days now.... :frown:

I cant imagine going out clubbing and drinking with my own kids though, it would be weird.When my eldest is 18 I"ll be almost 42!.

Reply 16

~flutterby~

2

Only for practical things like shopping, usually accompanied by a compulsory supermarket trip, usually with my mum. My dad is big on 'days out' and travelling abroad as a whole family so of course I go for the experience/to see new places. It's definitely important to do stuff as a family I think, but only family things like meals and holidays and walks in the park/by the sea on Sundays.

But no way anything like clubbing, that would be awkward and not enjoyable. Friends only.

Reply 17

Megaross

16

I don't do anything with my parents any more, maybe go out for a walk with them on christmas day. But I'm either too busy at work or too preoccupied with my mates.

Saying that going out in town with a few mates we managed to drag one of the girls mid 40's mother out with us, ******* legend as it happens. She can put away some booze I can tell you.
Drinking with your freinds parents = a good time.

Reply 18

noodles!

14

My 19 year old cousin regularly goes out and gets sloshed with my auntie (so her mum). But they're both a little crazy. And her best friend (my cousin, that is) is 40-odd and she's happy to go out and drink with her too.

I don't go out with mine, though. She's 40 and I'm 21 but I just wouldn't.