History Main / HippieParents

* Mandy's mother, Phoebe, was this in her debut appearance in ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies''
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** Ned Flanders' parents, though they are more Beatniks, TheFifties version of this trope. [[HandsOffParenting They didn't discipline young Ned at all]] because they didn't want to inhibit his self-expression. His mother describes it as "we've tried nothing, and we're all out of ideas." Played straight in a later appearance, where they visit Ned and pester him with their laid-back stoner ways.
** Homer's mom was also a hippie. (Well, she started out as a political activist opposing biological weapons testing, but she eventually fell under the hippie spell.)
* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': In the {{revival}} seasons, it turns out Mandark's parents (shown above in a fan-comic) are hippies who were so averse to gender norms [[ABoyNamedSue they named him Susan]] and [[DudeLooksLikeALady had him affect a very androgynous appearance]] (long hair, pink clothes), as well as discourage Mandark's interest in science. They remain oblivious to how much their son has hated all of this (and them) [[EnfantTerrible since the moment he was born]].

* Ben's rarely-seen parents from ''WesternAnimation/Ben10''. Although in ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'', it's shown Ben's father is a city engineer and seems to be a solidly respectable middle-class type.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'''s father Greg was the BlackSheep of his stuffy, conservative family and ran away to follow his dream of being a musician while legally [[HippieName changing his surname to Universe]] and living in a van. He's a big proponent of HandsOffParenting as he believed in freedom above all else due to having ControlFreak parents, which a grown-up Steven [[CallingTheOldManOut clashes with him over]] as he felt he was [[KidHero denied a normal life]].
* ''WesternAnimation/MyDadTheRockStar'': Rock's wife is a hippie of the New Age aromatherapy type. His mother is the right age to have been a real hippie, and she's sort of closeted because of her snooty husband.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheTofus'' stars a pair of such parents, as well as their children, who share little of their interest in the granola lifestyle.

* Vana from ''WesternAnimation/{{Sidekick}}'' is frustrated to no end by her Hippie Mom.
* Mikey's parents from ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}''.
* Nina's parents, Zeph and Fern, in ''WesternAnimation/PixelPinkie''. They wear tie-dyed clothes, are vegetarians, keep chickens in the backyard, and drive a VW Kombi powered by biofuel.

* Peter and Lois temporarily become this in the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Deep Throats."

* Ben's little seen parents from ''WesternAnimation/Ben10''. Although in ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'', Ben's father is the city engineer and seems to a solidly respectable middle-class type.

* Terra from ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5330983/1/Convergent_Paths Convergent Paths]]'', while being a really good and caring mother, still has moments of this, such as coloring her gym in "Mother Earth" theme, [[DoesNotLikeShoes almost never wearing shoes]] and her love for meditating, up to the point of switching between normal state and meditative state (in which she speaks "like a wise elder of a village").

They are pretty easy to spot: they usually live in a house with cringy orange and brown decor ripped from the 1970s even though they live in the early 2000s, enjoy cannabis and [[MushroomSamba LSD]], use alternative medicine, especially if it's Eastern, and do yoga or chanting. They wear seventies clothes like tye-dyed shirts and sport SeventiesHair and beads, and sandals (or go [[DoesNotLikeShoes barefoot]]), and they say things like 'groovy'. They name their kids embarrassing things [[HippieName like 'Flower' or 'Rainbow']], if not [[UnusualPopCultureName pop culture names like 'Galadriel' and 'Spock']]. Expect someone to ask WhoNamesTheirKidDude. Vehicles of choice are a 1970s VW bus or a van with far-out psychedelic murals.

* Zilpha Keatley Snyder's ''Literature/TheBirdsOfSummer'' is about the two daughters of Oriole, a flighty flower child who wants to be "one with Nature" while leaving most of the responsibility to 16-year-old Summer, including caring for little Sparrow. This is one of Snyder's most realistically grim and even angry books from the mid-70s and like ''A Fabulous Creature'' (about a boy's sexual coming of age) is not well thought of today; she was very frank about drug use, teen pregnancy, brutal DEA raids, terrorism, blackmail and other "uncomfortable" issues; the book begins with Oriole losing a successful bakery job for coming to work stoned.

* In ''How NOT to Be Popular'' by Jennifer Ziegler, Maggie's parents are hippies who move her around every few months.

* Zilpha Keatley Snyder's ''The Birds of Summer'' is about the two daughters of Oriole, a flighty flower child who wants to be "one with Nature" while leaving most of the responsibility to 16-year-old Summer, including caring for little Sparrow. This is one of Snyder's most realistically grim and even angry books from the mid-70s and like ''A Fabulous Creature'' (about a boy's sexual coming of age) is not well thought of today; she was very frank about drug use, teen pregnancy, brutal DEA raids, terrorism, blackmail and other "uncomfortable" issues; the book begins with Oriole losing a successful bakery job for coming to work stoned.

* Brandon and Stuart Higsby's parents in ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'' appear to be a mixture of this and MyBelovedSmother / OverprotectiveDad.