Have you ever made your parents cry?

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If yes, what did you do?

In grade 2 I got a phone call home from my teacher at school saying I did not pay attention at all at school and my mom bursted into tears. In grade 3 my mom always picked me up from school and once, she peeked inside the classroom while waiting and caught me doing my bad habit of touching my hair. On the way home, she was not happy and she bursted into tears when we got home. I was glad she didn't start crying in the street on the way home or else there would be awkward stares.

Yes. My dad found out when I was 14 that I was going to move back in my mother after an unhappy year and a half with him. He found out from someone else because people love gossiping in small towns. When he asked me I confirmed it and had to defend my decision to my stepmother. (I said unwise things - I was 14). My dad, the big strong man that he is, who only represented power to me, looked down and a tear rolled out of his right eye. I didn't know what to do - I just looked at him. That was 21 years ago but it still brings tears to my eyes because I think he, though he seems strong, is is much more fragile than I am and I hurt him. I would put up with being a teenager again just to avert that happening to him.

I did learn not to tell others my business.

Definitely not my father. He seems to prefer that I wasn't born at all. My step-father and step-mothers have had nothing but contempt for me as well. But my mother has cried both for the harm that she has done to me when I was younger and also the frustration/sadness that success in life by any measure seems to be unobtainable for me.

Yes. I can't remember why though but then my older brothers have made my mum cry at least once.

Don't know, not that I know, on the other hand they made everything to make my life as difficult as possible.

I was in middle school and we had came home from grocery shopping. We had finished unloading the groceries and mom tells me to close the gate (the thing at the back of the mini van) so I close it without thinking because I had acted on impulse to the words. It hits my mother's back and she cries. I didn't know what to do so I ran inside and stayed in my room feeling bad.

I have also made my mother cry when I was 16 because I was depressed and I was filled with anger and grudges.

Yes but I'm pleading the fifth.

I don't live with my dad so I haven't made him cry.

There have been several occassions where my mum has been crying at home but I can't remember whether or not it was my fault, it was a long time ago.

One time, when I was 1 month shy of my 16th Birthday, I told my mum that I wanted to kill myself. She replied, "That's a crazy thing to do! Do sane people walk around, killing themselves? DO SANE PEOPLE WALK AROUND, KILLING THEMSELVES?" I answered, "Yes". My mum started crying, and she asked what she did wrong. I told her, that she never went along with my special interests.

I have made my mother cry and actually threaten to leave home a couple of times as apparently I was cold and unfeeling. From my point of view, I just couldn't stand her theatrics and wanted nothing to do with them.
My mother never made good on her threat to move out and I was made to apologise by my father for not caring.

It is a very good thing I am no longer living at home.

I don't think so. If I did, they never let me see it. On the other hand, I've cried over my own daughter a number of times. Maybe it's just part of being a parent.

Plenty of times.

She caught me stealing once when I was 10 and feared that I was turning to a life of crime. She hugged me. It felt uncomfortable.

Recently, well a few years ago I was being vocal about meltdowns and depressive thoughts and that made her cry.

She's probably made me cry more times. I never once saw my dad cry.

When I was maybe 3, I threw a cylindrical cardboard Tinkertoys container to my Mom (and at that age, I didn't understand the difference between "throwing to" and "throwing at"), and it hit her in the face. She started crying because it hurt! I remember being puzzled. "Mommies don't cry," I said. After that, I knew that they did (and I said that I was sorry).

I've unintentionally made my mom cry before, and I feel absolutely terrible about it.

The first time was when I was about 13 or 14. I had been having a lot of meltdowns and had even self-harmed. I told my mom I wanted to be institutionalized, and she started crying because she didn't want me to go.

The second time was only a couple of months ago, when I told my mom I wanted to be independent and live on my own. She didn't actually start crying, but I could see the tears in her eyes.

Very often when I was a kid. She used to get yell at me for doing things that I was unaware that I even did, and then start crying afterwards.