A little advice for you parents out there

I think the point is more like they say you can tell them anything like bitch about your day but then they give you a lecture for bitching
Cause like, my mom tells me I can tell her anything but then I say something she doesn't agree with and instead of just letting me continue talking she has to interrupt me and make it so I agree with her
I also know some people who can't even tell their parents who their friends are because they don't like their kids hanging out with kids of other religions or sometimes even gay friends
It makes us think most parents just say that so you incriminate yourself to them.

One time my friends and I were doing something stupid (details aren't important) and someone told us they had reported us to the police. My friends told me not to tell my parents because maybe they were lying about reporting us. I told them anyway and they decided not to punish me because I had told them, they made sure I understood that what we did was stupid though. Nothing ever came of it, but that made a bigger impression on me than any punishment they could have dealt.

I think it's important that the first offense is not necessarily punished. It hurt more to have a parent disappointed than grounding. We have tried this method. One time, my daughter told me she was taking Daddy's bar change he kept on his bedside table and putting it in her piggy bank. I told her thanks for telling me, but that is naughty and I am sad she felt the need to do that. I told her she wasn't in trouble, but if it happens again, that she would be punished. Seems to work, hasn't happened again. Hopefully this will somehow work in high school :/ I was a very awkward, nerd child and never did anything crazy. That shit hit me in college instead.

Yes very much but also depends on a bunch of other circumstances that only you can see and take into consideration.