What did you keep hidden from your parents as a teenager?

[BeckyRac]

What did you keep hidden from your parents?

Staying out all night, drinking and messing with boys from about 14. They thought I was babysitting or staying at my friend's house.

That I rarely went to school in the last two years. No idea how I scraped through with a few GCSEs or how school never told them.

That I had my belly button pierced at 15 when my mum had told me I couldn't.

An abortion. Not sure what they're thoughts would have been on it but they told me never to come home pregnant so I never told them.

*their not they're

The usual stuff pre-16 - drinking, boyfriends, the pill, smoking. I suspect they knew about a lot of it, tbh, and chose not to have any awkward conversations.
I got pregnant at 18 and had an abortion, I never told them.
I failed my first year at uni, and dropped out. When they thought I was going back to start second year, I was really moving in with my boyfriend. They did eventually find out, but not until a year later.

I didn't really hide much, they were really terrible at paying attention to anything but themselves and had 'as long as it doesn't bother me' sort of attitudes. Not that they were always nice about it, but when even my most blatant vices got nothing more than a snide remark or their very awkward way of asking but not really asking what he was getting at -- like my father always asked if I was having sex by asking if I was on the pill, even when he was filling in medical forms for me (as the insurance holder) and there was 'is there a chance of being pregnant' question, he'd ask me about the pill instead. I've only ever used barrier methods. Thankfully, those medical professionals always double checked with me.

They hid from me multiple drug-related arrests and a lot of things involved in their divorce. I didn't learn about them until I was an adult looking into court records about unrelated events. My father tried to hide how much debt he was in trying to pay for two households, but I was the one dealing with those that came to the door. I'm not sure they remember all the things they did and said while intoxicated, but I never felt any desire to enlighten them. It's hard to be a rebellious teenager when your parents act like teens themselves.

Nothing because nothing got past those buggers. Years of being secondary school teachers. They could smell an illicit fag at 20 paces.

Any time I thought I had got anything past them it later turned out they knew all along and were just letting it go

Like the time my mate and I got drunk at a sleepover and she was throwing up all night, the time I stole some foul blue Curaçao liqueur to take to a party (they didn't mind as as they weren't drinking it) and all the cigarettes I nicked out of my mums bag. She switched to Lambert and Butler because those were so foul I wouldn't steal them.