I figured this out very early unfortunately my twin thought she needed to tell them just about everything. Stupid bitch got me in more trouble than was needed so I quit telling her anything also.

LOL!!! Parents, and children, really should NOT know all that happened!!

I don't even tell my kids how I raised them; if they don't remember, then too bad. I definitely wasn't conventional, since I grew up in Haiti, in a different culture.

I had both my children at home.

I nursed them for over two years, on demand, as long as they wished. Hint, nursing didn't take long and they usually fell asleep while doing so.
But after six months, their nursing was sporadic, they often skipped days as they tried new foods.

No commercial baby food-I fed them from my (organic, mostly vegetarian food) plate by chewing the food first, the way animals do, to get parental gut bacteria started in new babies.

I carried the kids on my back or stomach a lot of the time when they were little, even when hiking, mild cliff climbing, and riding horses, even though I put them in the saddle with me when they reached a certain size.

They insisted on hiking on their own, beside me, when they were only three years old, or riding in a toddler frame carrier, if they liked.
They had their own horses by four (my daughter) and five years old (my son).

It was nice having babies that slept through the night and didn't get the usual baby stomach problems, colic, and childhood sicknesses. They didn't even get colds.

1991 pic is of my daughter, at eight years old, riding my son's horse, Black Jack, while pulling my son, 11 years old, on plastic skis, on our family farm near Morehead, KY.

I don't ask questions I don't want to know the answer to, so didn't ask them. I enjoyed my own parent-free childhood; both my parents worked long hours on our mission, and even though I saw them around, and they had strict rules, they weren't hovering over me. Besides, in those days, that's how parents did it.

If any parents really knew - and if any children realised what their parents DID know!