If you ever spent a Friday night at your friend’s house wishing your mum was more like Kris Jenner or Gretchen Wieners’ mum from Mean Girls, the one with the wine, the no-questions-asked attitude, and a fridge that was always open, you are not alone. The cool parent household was every kid’s dream.
No curfew, no rules, cigarettes in the backyard, adults who wanted to be your friend more than your guardian. It seemed like the ideal setup. But those kids grew up. And one creator went online to ask the question nobody had thought to ask before: were they actually okay? The comment section that followed was, to put it mildly, a lot. A trauma dump tsunami opened up, and you should be checking up on your friends who grew up in a ‘cool house’.
