<p>My girls will probably tell me. They volunteer almost everything now, as freshmen, both good and bad, and at that stage my son was already pretty much saying nothing.</p>
<p>My son is just much more private and I feel that it is important to respect that. In high school, he very seldom told us anything either good or bad. Definitely not perfect, no one is, but just never a problem child. And as best as I can remember, I really didn’t ever think to tell my parents my grades either–which were always fine. I’m trying to think back about why I didn’t tell them. I think I was just more focused on emotional/social/fun things and that is what I told them about, I’m pretty sure–also ideas and courses and trips to museums and so on. </p>
<p>Again, I can see that it depends a lot. As it always does.</p>