how to say sorry and i love you to your mom?

Usually that happens to children whose parents are strict. The parents also have the habit of showing to their children that they are the boss. Thus, the children are deterred from opening up to them, lest their suggestion or whatever they like will be rejected. However, generally , children can always go to their parents for advise, when the need to do so arises.

I'm still a teen so I wouldn't know how to answer about the parent's side but I'll share you my side as a daughter of my mother. Our family is very close but we're not very vocal when it comes to expressing emotion, especially me and my siblings, yes we laugh, we cry, we brood and all, we show how we feel but we never talk about it and never mention what we're feeling even though it's clearly shown in our face. We children (especially the youngest) don't feel comfortable telling those stuffs to one another and to our parents and one of the reason is because we're not very emotional when it comes to that. We feel awkward saying things like that, one of the hindrances aside from embarrassment is we'll be the subject of teasing in the family as well. I still remember when they told me the story of my Sister crying because my bro was picking on her and she told them it hurts her feeling and everyone was like...they're laughing. So we learn not to be very verbal like that because it's very uncomfortable. Secrets are usually shared to siblings but we'll always talk about life and happenings when we're just eating or watching tv or just plain hanging out in the house. I apologize and say sorry for little things but when the topic is kinda deep, we don't say it we'll just act on it, to prove them we're really sorry. I also don't feel at ease saying I love you to my Mom during serious moments but we do tell her we love her when we're goofing around. Although, I do say I love her but through cards like what I did last Mother's day. I posted the card on to the refrigerator at midnight, I know she'll be the first one to awake anyway and I'm the last to sleep. When I got up sleepily from my bed the next morning my Mom hugged really tight (and it's heaven) and said thank you and I just smiled like it's really nothing.