hey does ne other kid on here have hippie parents??

Nope, my parents have always been conservatives, thank heaven. They never touched pot in the 60's or at any other time. Not ONCE! Nor have I for that matter, and they never EVER gave me any "dont use drugs" talk! I guess it's all in the environment you grow up in. No one could have had better parents.

But my mom was and is a HUGE Beatles fan. The Beatles do not just sound good to hippies, which is cool! And my dad has almost all of the cool old Pink Floyd records on vinyl. (Another hippy-associated band that non-hippies can also dig!)

My dad wasn't drafted due to a childhood eye injury, but they both supported the war in Vietnam. I remember them telling me about the anti-Vietnam moratorium that closed down the University of Illinois back in 1969. My parents, along with some other students and even a professor, defied the demonstrators and went to class anyway. When some of the demonstrators came in and yelled at them to get out, my parents held their ground. After a brief showdown, the hippies gave up and left my parents alone to get their homework done, which after all is what they were paying their college tuition for!

 

well, my parents are divorced. i don't see my father, but i know he's a hippie from the times i've seen him. he's liberal,long-haired sort of guy. don't stress out, you kno. unfortunately the unreliableness goes with that. my mom, she used to be a bigger one i would say, but now she's a little bearing on certain things. still's got a few aspects, thank god. i couldnt live without healthy foods. my stepparents, hard 2 say & dont feel like typing

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I wish my parents had been hippies and smoked a little dope. They're some of the most uptight, miserable people on earth. They could use something to considerably mellow them out. I turned out normal, completely in spite of them, however! I am totally unimpressed by what Justwow says about the attitude of his parents toward the Vietnam War. Sure, they paid their tuition to go to college, but so did the protestors! And what the protestors were trying to do was to say that they were concerned about what was going on in the world, and not just about themselves. People that unquestioningly march down, get a crew cut, and march off to war without asking questions are the kinds of people that absolutely scare me to death, and are what makes this country in a lot of ways a really screwed up place to live. Please Uncle Sam, tell us what to do next-we're your faithful servants! What a bunch of crap.

 

I wasn't trying to impress anyone, just to say how proud I am of them for not falling for the rhetoric that so many students sadly believed in the 60's. And I dont think you could not be more wrong about conservatives, imho. At least, about such people I know, and I know plenty of 'em. They dont blindly follow uncle sam, but they also realize how important it is to support their country. They question things like everyone else, but they are less cynical than most people on the left, so they arrive at different conclusions. They know this is a country where dissent is tolerated, and so they support those who fight to defend that, which is good for everyone regardless of political stance.

 

My mum was born in 1959 and went on to become a 70's hippy. She was a huge fan of Led Zep when they were still considered an obscure "heavy metal" band that Bay City Rollers fans would love to mock. She has a degree in art history and English literature and she met my dad (who's far less hippyish but still manages to uphold the five pillars of hippiedom) when mutual friends put them both in a band which lasted from the 80s to 1998. She's also taught English in Italy and lived for half a year in Sri Lanka, so while I wouldn't call them 'true hippies' as such, my mum can get very close.

As a child I remember spending a lot of time listening to Beatles and Fairport Convention records, and either due to my parents encouraging me or me being naturally inquisitive, I've gained a real fascination with other cultures and everything that makes culture so diverse. I feel lucky that my childhood was like this even if I know it could've been much better.

Also: I have never (knowingly) eaten so much as a scrap of meat. It's great when you can claim the moral highground even thought it's all you've ever known.

 

Wow, can you hook me up with her?? *joke!*

 

i do. my parents are straight free-loving, cracked-out gypsies. there still out there somwhere floatin around doin their thing whatever that is. i was raised without rules and without religion, always had waaay more freedom than any kid should ever have. been on my own since i was like 13. and grew up listening to the grateful dead & sitar music. but their efforts were in vain, i am still not a hippie

 

My Mum was a hippie, my dad was a rocker. My mum was playing her folk music today.

It's no suprise I'm a mix of the two.

 

i think both my parents r closet acid heads...and i dunno how they can handle it, ide freak the fuck out stuck in a closet on lsd... but they like "sold out" or something... their lives r just like every other suburbanite family, which is fucked up...why did all the hippy's from the 60's end up in the suburbs...something happened it the 70's 80's, it was called cocain and disco, all thos it didnt kill just simply gave up...not to worry the conciousness buck got passed

 

nah this isnt true at all. look at my parents, they were hippies in the 60's & 70's & they most certainly did NOT end up in the suburbs. although they probably would have been better off there than wherever they are now. they never grew up.

 

If my parents had smoked a little dope once in a while, they'd have been a LOT better off. They really needed something to make them relax/chill out. My mother would come home from work and say, 'oh my, God! My house is filthy! I wish i was dead!', and she'd spend the rest of the night crying and cleaning a fucking house that was already hospital clean to start with.

My parents were some of the most miserable, uptight people on the face of the earth, which was one reason I got the hell out of their place and became a hippy myself. That's one thing, for all my faults, that I don't regret doing.

 

your mother sounds more bi-polar than just straight uptight. thats crazy. i dont blame you for wanting to get away from that kind of lifestyle.

i agree that loosening up, being free-spirited & kind, and smokin some pot once in awhile is good for the soul and id rather be like that than anything. but when it gets to the point where there so fucked up that they cant take care of themselves or their children then its a little fucked up. my mother has hella kids that she doesnt know who the fuck their fathers are (my father was also a hippy also but hes like 25 years older than her) and she still lives out the trunk of her car and does hella drugs that she cant afford and whatnot. i appreciate the fact that she raised me without religion & raised me to be very independant but there is also a lot of things i dont appreciate. i dont want to end up like her!

 

Yea, it's good that you can see that, that you don't want to end up like them. A lot of things are good in moderation-a little pot sometimes can mellow people out and get rid of some of the aches and pains of life, and help you be happy. A little religion can too, in my opinion-it can help you to understand what life's about, how to treat other people. But I know people that are religious extremists that let religion ruin their lives, like some people do with drugs. People have to have moderation in everything, the way I see it. Sorry to hear about your parents. I don't see mine either, anymore, for real different reasons.

 

The Suburbs Rock, its the best of both worlds. Having your own patch is grand!

I can be in Times Sq., NYC or the Catskills in an hour.

 

I remember my Dad telling me how auful The Rolling Stones were

how corrupting and evil. This was about 1967. I was in 6th grade.
He hated Keith Richards Brian Jones and Mick Jagger.

:H

 

my dad was into acid rock and i found out later, much later, quite the speed freak. he intro'd me to Hendrix and Zeppelin and Floyd when i was really young; i am so grateful for that. My mom is way uptight; she used to be a model in the 70's (locally). i had access to every kind of music one could want from the 60's and 70's except for the Dead. i found them when i was in highschool -woohoo life's never been the same. From 13-30 something i was meandering around in a punk/goth/gypsy/bohemian phase until settling into my own skin. i drove my parents up the wall. my dad had an affinity for the bottle too.

 

wow i really wish my parents were hippies and raised me in that kinda lifestyle..
for my mom im sure she was never a hippie in fact everything else but a hippie
but my dad is a totally diffrent man i still dont understand how he end up with my mom???
they're so diffrent...anywayz yeh my dad was a hippie when he was 18 he went to africa
he smoked pot (alot)and listened to bob marley with all those beautiful african womens he said,he saw and experienced so many things i can only wish..really sad he changed so much its becus of my mom i like her very much but i get along with my dad much better he's more into stuff that i like and he onced liked

 

Hell, my parents never even heard of the Rolling Stones....:guitar:

 

My parents were the rock n roll breed of hippies. They have a shoebox full of ticket stubs from the concerts they went to. My dad has seen Pink Floyd over a dozen times, along with steve miller, Doobie bros, Skynyrd, Niel Young and stuff like that. As long as I could remember my dad allways kept his bong under the coffe table, that is till my lil bro was born (they kinda sheltered him). When I was young I remember seeing his pot plants strung all the way across the bassment to dry. I still listen to all of my dads records........now my records. Its a fuckin sweet collection of everything Hendrix ever played, most of led zepplin and pink floyd....a lot of the Doors, etc. etc. And I just recently started toking with my dad.

 

My mom missed the hippie movement... she was born in 58. My dad is ten years older than she is and he enjoyed some of it no doubt. They are suburban and have a totally "decent" life, but they're VERY open minded, cool, non religious, accepting, anti war... many hippie type ideals, though I wouldn't call them hippies outright. I, too, was raised on great music.