I always go to my mom with 'adult' problems, such as my taxes, and when my house went into foreclosure, that sort of thing. I make her call people for me sometimes because I get nervous over the phone.
But as a kid my dad was an alcoholic and my mother severely depressed, so I was cooking and cleaning the house by age 7 or 8, watching my siblings for 8 hours a day in the summers when I was 11, and basically being the voice of reason among the family, mostly because I didnt have the emotional hang-ups the rest of them did. I tended to be calm, honest, and practical when everyone else were turning into basket-cases.