For the very few times I’ve seen it, it was odd. I think because it happened so few times that it was a bit of a shock and also, it was my parents who comforted me when I cried; I expected kids to cry, but not the parents. As a kid, I remember thinking that adults never cried; they comforted the kids who cried, but they didn’t cry themselves. That probably had something to do with it.
But to be honest, the last time it happened, I was expecting it (my grandmother had just died) and so it wasn’t a shock, and I didn’t feel uncomfortable at all. It made me want to cry too. And I had rarely cried in front of my parents as a teenager.
@Ivan Oh. My. God. Ivan has a different avatar… What is this world coming to?