Should You Tell Your
Parents Everything?
J-14
Magazine, July 2001 / Celebrity Columnist with Lance Bass (a.k.a lance actually
wrote this)
Growing
up I was very hard-headed and I thought I knew it all. My parents would tell me
things and I would get mad when they turned out to be right....and they were
always right. They knew everything I did, even though I thought they didn't.
Kids think parents don't know what they do, as if they're too old to know
they're sneaking out at night. But as much as you want to deny it, parents know
everything.
If I went out or I stayed out too late, I would
come back and my parents could just tell. When I was younger, I used to sneak
out and go to clubs and I wasn't supposed to be going to a club because I was in
high school. I would come back smelling like smoke and expect my parents not to
know where I was. But they could totally tell. They would ask, "Where have
you been?" And I would say, "Oh, nowhere. Just at a friend's
house," while the smell of smoke is coming off my shirt. They seemed like
they believed me saying, "Whatever, OK." But the next day, they would
say, "We know where you were." I mean they know everything.
Even now when I'm on the road, my parents know
everything I do. I call them all the time, but they know exactly what I'm doing.
They can tell what I've done by the way I act. They have instincts that are
amazing. My mom.... I'll want to do something and she'll say, "I don't think
that's good. I don't trust that person." And I'll say to her, "What
are you talking about?" A few months later, it turns out she was so right
and I should have listened to her. I've learned just to go with my parents'
instinct and just trust them, even if it doesn't seem right at the time.
Kids just have to trust their parents. Kids don't
think their parents are smart. They don't think they can relate to what's going
on with them, or that they could ever have experienced the same things they're
going through because they're so much older. Kids today think it was much
different when their parents were young, but there was a lot that was the same.
They went through the same troubles, the same type of situations you're going
through as you're growing up.
You should listen to them. They can pull you
through a lot of things, relationship problems and things you go through growing
up.
I'm pretty much open with my parents about
everything. They're really my best friends. I can tell them anything and know
that they will still love me and give me the best advice they can. They'll
respect me no matter what.
Your parents and your family are the only ones
who will unconditionally love you. They will do whatever it takes to help you
out in any way. That's why I started the family business Free Lance
Entertainment. I mean, the people in my family were the only people I knew I
could trust and wouldn't take advantage of me. They always do everything they
can to help me out.
awwww how sweet :<)
