How much does your parents know about you?

Question

so much you guys are like friends? just enough? very little?

Answer 1

Yeah, I am cool with my parents but I don't go into too much detail with them...however, I hope its different with me and my kids...not only do I want to be a good parent, I also want to be someone they can come to for anything and everything...

Answer 2

My mom is my best friend.

Answer 3

my mom knows a lot, she was in the delivery room when my daughter was born

Answer 4

I could never be friends with my mom.  She's too critical and judgemental, although she's calmed down alot, but still doesn't make up for the past.  I kept to myself alot.  She doesn't know alot about my personal life.

Answer 5

Like friends. Probably WAY too much TMI most times! I can only think of one thing I haven't come out and said to them but they pretty much figured it out on their own and that was who "de-virginised" me...my dad didn't like him so I would never tell him but by process of elimination he figured it out.

Answer 6

We're like friends. My parents don't know EVERYTHING, but they know a lot. I have a very close relationship with my parents.

Answer 7

I'm pretty sure that my parents and I have a very huge communication gap and I think my parents and I could never be friends because they are so traditional and conservative.

To tell the truth, they don't even know I am bisexual and they still think that I am gonna marry a woman someday in the future.

Answer 8

Somewhere between "best friends" and "just enough".

But I kinda think my mom knows a lot more about me than I thought, especially now that I'm a mom myself...

Answer 9

They don't know everything like how many boys I've kissed and what not. They just know like g*y stuff :p. I don't tell my parents anything.

Answer 10

very little

Answer 11

nothing at all in fact my dad forgot my birthday quite a few times

Answer 12

Not much really for two reasons.

1) Anything I do tell them, they only find a way to criticize me about it.

2) My mom and dad are best friends and they really don't have much time for me - it's all about them.

I'm 28 and married, btw

Answer 13

Best friends!

Answer 14

Everything that I know about myself she knows about me.

Answer 15

My parents know a lot about me, I don't really have nothing to hide.

My mom is like a best friend, and so is my dad.

But to be truthful I'm closer to my older brother than anyone else.

Answer 16

Mr. Man? (hahahahahahaha),

First of all its "How much *do* your parents know about you", and secondly, I am now friends with my parents, but even when I was your age my parents knew quite a bit about me.  I had to tell them some things because they would never believe that I was a perfect angel.  The really crazy stuff I kept to myself though.  That is, until now.  Now we look back and laugh about it.

Answer 17

just enough

Answer 18

My mom and I are very very close!!  I have no idea what I could do if I couldn't call her every day!! She knows me better (I think) than my best friend, whom I've been friends with since I was 5!  She knows EVERYTHING!! about me!! Couldn't ask for a better mom!!

Answer 19

we dont really talk about anything important.

Answer 20

When I was a teen, my Dad was like an adversary. I could never tell him how I felt, he was always putting me down, and finding fault with my actions. Nothing I did seemed to be okay with him.

My mother was always comparing me to my cousins, and it made me feel she didn't love me and that she liked my cousins better than me.

This made it really hard to relate to them. I couldn't tell them everything I was going through. When I asked them if I was going to go to college when I was a junior in high school they both gave me blank looks. I realized I was screwed because neither of them had attended college.

I ended up talking to my high school counselor and he helped me find a few colleges to apply to. I was accepted to both I applied to, but was afraid my parents wouldn't help me out. My parents help pay for the first quarter of my freshman year, but I got part-time jobs and paid for all of the rest. My grades sucked, because I had to work so much, but I ended up graduating with three degrees.

It wasn't until after I started my own life, and moved out that I started to understand my parents better. I saw why they were the way they were, and why my Dad was so critical and my mother only talked about my cousins because she wanted me to excel and she used them to push me to compete with them.

Anyway, my parents knew very little about me, and when my life turned out great, they were really surprised. Now that I have kids, my parents are more like friends. They retired, and I have more money than they do so I help them out. Now it is kind of like they are my kids.

As I get to know my parents better, I find out there is a lot about them when they were growing up I didn't know about! Funny how the tables get turned.

Maybe kids and parents don't know eachother as well as they think they do, and should try and talk more.