This episode contains moderate spoilers for H2O: Just Add Water, and Littlest Pet Shop.

Hey.  Y'know what really grinds my gears?  When young TV characters have some kind of big "secret", but they can never tell their parents.  I'm talking about, like, kid superheroes and the like.  Y'know, secret identities 'n' sh*t.  So, like, take Miraculous Ladybug for instance,  Marinette can't tell her parents that she's the superhero Ladybug.  WHY THE F*CK NOT??!  You can't tell me it's for their protection.  That's backwards.  If the bad guys knew her identity, then that puts her family in jeopardy.  Y'know, like the dark knight said: "The mask isn't for you; it's to protect the people you love."  But how does it endanger her family if they just know that she's Ladybug??  My Celesita, the energy she spends just trying to hide it.  She would free up so much time, energy, and stress if she just told them.  Why can't she??!  (Btw, I'm not caught up on Miraculous, so if they found out somehow, don't tell me.)

Another example is Littlest Pet Shop.  Why couldn't Blythe tell her dad her big secret?  I mean, she did, but only in the finale, and only because she was backed into a corner and had no choice.  She never wanted to nor planned on it.  (And of course it turned out that her dad already knew all along because he was very perceptive.  It was a really great scene, actually, but the point still stands.)  For the entire show, it was unthinkable to Blythe to tell her dad.  She told her best friend, Youngmee, but her dad??  Ho, ho, no way!  Not a chance!  Forget about it!  WHY??!!

The worst offender of all has to be H2O: Just Add Water, an adorable, charming, irresistible, fun-filled romp about three teenage girls who are secretly mermaids that transform whenever they touch water.  They have a best friend that they share their secret with, (mostly because they needed a non-mermaid, male role to kind of balance things out and to give them a sidekick to help bail them out of trouble) but none of them could ever tell their parents.  Of course not!  Unthinkable!!  They spent the entire show doing f*cking backflips to avoid spilling the beans.  But WHHHHYYYYY???!!  For a long time, I actually felt like they were teasing that Cleo (my favorite character) was going to finally tell her dad.  It really felt like they were building to that.  It was actually my biggest wishlist item for the show.  But nooooooooooooooooooooooo!!    Unallowed!  He must never know!    ...WHY THE F*CK NOT??!!!!  

Your parents are supposed to be the people you can trust more than anyone in the world.  Your first and always #1 fans, supporters, and confidants.  And all of the parents on all of these shows were exactly that: good parents.  So why couldn't any of these characters confide in them?  Why, why, WHY in the name of Celestia's butthole can none of these characters ever tell the people in their life that they can trust the most?  Do they think their parents are gonna turn them in to the authorities to be shipped off and dissected at Area-51?  What catastrophe do they think is going to happen?  It never even seems to occur to them that telling their parents is an option!

It makes my head a splode!