Did you confide in your parents?

There have been a few occassions something has happened and I didnt tell my parents...and for sure would want my children to tell me - Period! 1. One time my friends and I decided to go to a park, a bit further out then our local park, which we were allowed to go to. We were 11 at the time. Anyway, it started off normal playing in the park on the frames and swings etc and then we noticed a man seemingly "watching" us from a distance...and we started having an active imagination that he's some weirdo watching us... turnd out the imaginative game, was actually true. He HAD been watching us and then followed us as we walked around the "country Park" any way it ended with him making conversation with us, and kinda walking with us and then out of the blue pulling out a knife on us!!! we were scared sh.it and he pushed one of my friends down who was wearing a very short mini skirt and he was trying to put hi hands up her and she was sobbing and me and my other friend started crying and then he came to me , as if to comfort me, but i still remember the knife in his hand was against my waist - I was VERY SCARED ...thought he may stab me... and then luckily some people were coming along the path where we were, we couldnt see them, but could hear them , and he let us go and ran off.. we were crying and when the ladies walked near us we Told them what had happened - they told us to go straight home.. we did and NEVER told our parents... we were more afraid of getting told off - for going to the park we were not allowed to , and for not asking permission to go ! 2. One other time, again when I was younger and we went to visit some relatives, very very ditant type but anyway a biggish community village if u like - where every one knew everyone and all i know is that some guy maybe 18-25 a male relative (distant) was holding me, picking me up... I was maybe 7-8ys old...but i do recall i felt he was rubbing me up and down him!! and i felt very uncomfortable and then he let me go but I never told no one!! I dont really know why? maybe cos didnt know then what it was but knew something not ok and maybe not to tell parents? why that was i dont know...my parents were great and supportive and yet i felt i couldnt tell them - maybe i felt it showed im weak and i always wanted to show them , Me at my best? possibly!!!

No I didnt talk to my parents about anything, I'm sure i could have but would have died of embarassment. I remember when i was about 11 my mum came into my bedroom with a packet of sanitary towels in her hand, she said "do you know what these are for?" and i said "yes".... that was the whole period discussion over!! ha ha Were they the kind that required a belt, but mother never gave you that bit of info or the belt? If so, then we had the same mother. I never told my parents about most of the stuff that went on in my life. My mother once told me that she was my best friend and that I could tell her anything. Out of guilt I told her I'd done something wrong. She went through the roof in anger and that was the last time I said a word to her about anything important. Lord knows there were a lot of scary things and people I encountered as a kid, but keeping quiet was the best course of action. <em>edited by Ms. K on 19/01/2011</em>

My mum was also prudish, for want of a better word. She was a million miles away, not just a generation away. I was given a book called 'Janet & John Grow Up' to teach me the facts of life. The book explained how animals mate and wove in how humans do it. When my mum asked (obviously she felt obliged to ask) how I was getting on with the book I recall launching into the details of how frogs mate. Anything to save me having to talk about humans doing it! She was probably as relieved as I was about that :) Had the talk about birth control from my sister (who is a lot older than me) which was definitely better than getting it from my mum. (At 21, after 2 years of living with my boyfriend my mum asked me if I was a v*rg*n and she actually believed me when I lied!)

My mum was very prudish when I was younger and it was my dad who spoke to me about relationships, my changing body etc because mum was too embarrassed!!! This was the late 60s!! Mum left a little book about periods on my bed but that was it! Funnily enough she is far more open now at amost 80!! My DD and I can talk about anything and everything. My DS is a bit more private but DH has spoken to him about man things too. It was just "not done" years ago to talk about "it" !!

My parents didn't have to worry about that, infact I used to embarrass them! I had a big sister who used to leave all her teenage magazines around - I would read and then question my mum and dad on what different things meant. They banned Sugar Magazine from the house when I showed then that weeks 'position of the fortnight' and asked them to explain! :D

Nope. And imagine how my mom feels when my sister and I unload our bad deeds as kids and teens. She used to think she knew everything we did.

I told my mum about the dirty old man down stairs from grans, ( I was about 11 at the time ) she waved the conversation away, later in life I re told the story and she couldnt even remember me even mentioning it. So No I didnt really confide. My dad was always away working, or having his couple of pints.

When I was about 9 I saw a man playing with himself. I really thought he was sick or dying or worse....I stood there and watched him moaning (in pain?) and saw some awful stuff coming out of him. I rushed inside and told Mom. She looked up very calmly from her newspaper and said that next time I did not need to tell her details, only that there is a man exposing himself. I never told her anything again, and was convinced that the man probably died later.

No I didnt talk to my parents about anything, I'm sure i could have but would have died of embarassment. I remember when i was about 11 my mum came into my bedroom with a packet of sanitary towels in her hand, she said "do you know what these are for?" and i said "yes".... that was the whole period discussion over!! ha ha

True, i never either. No matter how big or little the 'story' Never thought about it. And I'm not old, i'm very young but I think in these few years of the new generation things have changed. Whereas i'd never have thought to tell mum about the pervert in my park (even though nothing happend, the dude was just a perve) I'd be horrified if my daughter didn't tell me. Times change and have changed.

Never, but things and people were different then. My teens will say things to me and I listen carefully and attentively while thinking to myself "I don't want to know this" but well, it means they feel able to say anything to me - and they do, lol. :)