My parents are pretty good about this. My mom completely understands me and trusts me (knows what it's like being a teenager, knows what I'm going through, etc). She encourages me to go out and have a good time, and she never does that call-to-check-im-alive crap. She pretty much treats me as a mature adult. She's pretty hip too. My dad is a little different, but still kinda the same. He's completely fine with me going out and he trusts me too, but he'd be a little more inclined to call me. He asks a lot of questions about what I did, but that's his personality (he does the same with my mom. Not the I'm-worried-about-you questions, but just the curious/ignorant questions). But something really annoying he does though is sometimes he, well, literally treats me as a child. It's a little hard to explain; kinda like how one would talk to a little kid, but a little less severe, if you understand what I mean. Though he's gotten a lot better about it recently. In the end though, both my parents are real lenient and good about letting me do what I want to do, as long as I don't pour ammonium nitrate in the furnace or stuff like that.