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A person might only tell their parents about family information, especially if it’s more personal because this information is most likely only relevant within the family. It’s pretty simple, there’s just no reason to tell friends or others family information.

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Financial issues are usually pretty personal, and sharing this information with friends may not seem realistic. This sort of information can be very personally, and you want it to stay private. Usually your parents would be in the same socioeconomic standing, or they would be helping you with these issues.

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If you are an adult especially, there are probably some past memories that you aren’t proud of. Most people have these things in their life, and especially if it was a darker time you don’t want friends or others knowing about them. However it’s likely that your parents were there for you during these times which is why you would feel comfortable talking to them about these things.

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If you aren’t with your parents 100% of the time, it is likely that you will learn new information or lessons when you aren’t with them. Parents always like to know what their children have learned, and this is no exception. According to The Huffington Post, parents also like to hear about things you didn’t believe them about, but you found to be true.

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If you are at an age where things are changing with you and others your age, you may feel embarrassed to talk to parents about this. However your friends may be going through the same things, so talking to them would make sense.

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This includes things that you may be scared to tell your parents about, such as if you did something bad or even illegal, but you still want advice on. Your friends will more likely relate to what you’re taking about, whereas your parents might lecture you.

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This things are again more personal for a person of a certain age, therefore you would want to talk to people of your own age about these things. If you just want to chat with a friend, it’s not uncommon to start talking about others, known as gossiping, which parents are usually not into.

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If you say your nagative opinions out loud, you will likely offend others, so keeping these things to yourself is wise. Most people have these opinions at some point, but keeping them to yourself will make you feel better, and others around you feel better about you as a person.

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This may seem odd but it is true. We tend to keep our feelings about ourselves private, or change them to seem more similar to those around us. Our true feelings about ourselves may be hidden deep down inside, and never told to other people.

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Admit it, we’ve all told lies before. Whether it was for a good or bad reason, everybody has lied before. Lies are one thing however that you don’t want to admit to doing, therefore you wouldn’t tell others of those.

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If you are jealous of somebody, it is likely that you’ll keep that information to yourself so you don’t make others feel bad. If you admit this, you may cause others to see you not having self-confidence, or that you are even obsessed with said person. Either way, you don’t want others to see you differently so you keep these thoughts to yourself.

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If you are scared, and you need to talk to somebody about it, you’ll probably go to the person nearest you that you trust. Typically your family would the people you would trust most, but in some cases it may be another person.

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If you are just having small talk, or making conversation to fill the air, you won’t be having a super serious conversation and therefore you won’t bring up super serious topics. If it’s a more serious conversation, you would bring up those more serious topics.

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According to lifeadvancer.com, people that are more emotionally intelligent are better at deciding who to tell what compared to people that are more emotionally unstable.

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I chose this question because I was thinking about how there’s some things I tell my friends without second thought, but I would never think of telling to my parents, and visa versa. I want to know if this has something to do with our brain, and if there’s any connection to who we tell what and why. Also, if this differs from person to person, or if this is just completely random.

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Lyness, D'Arcy. “Talking to Your Parents.” KidsHealth, The Nemours Foundation, Aug. 2016, kidshealth.org/en/kids/talk-parents.html.

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L., Loukia. “7 Things Emotionally Intelligent People Keep to Themselves .” Life Advancer, Life Advancer, 18 Nov. 2017, www.lifeadvancer.com/emotionally-intelligent-people-keep.

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Rubin, Gretchen. “Do You Know Your ‘Tell?".” Psychology Today, Sussex Publishers, 10 Mar. 2015, www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-happiness-project/201503/do-you-know-your-tell.

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FlockU. “The Things You Should--and Shouldn't--Tell Your Parents in College.” The Huffington Post, 11 Mar. 2016, www.huffingtonpost.com/flocku/the-things-you-shouldand-_b_9430196.html.