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Objectives: The purpose of this study was to examine the associations between parental warmth, negative reactions, parent-child attachment, and children’s disclosure to parents focusing on different domains of their daily activities. Methods: The participants were 240 children (120 3rd graders and 120 6th graders in elementary school) and their mothers in Seoul and Gangwon-do, South Korea. The data were analyzed with the t -test, structural equation modeling, and multiple group analysis. Results: First, 3rd graders exhibited greater disclosure than 6th graders in most domains. Second, parental warmth and negative reactions had significant influences on children’s disclosure through parent-child attachment in the rule-breaking, friends, and personal domains but not in the school (institute) domain. Third, while negative parental reactions had a significant direct influence on children’s disclosure only in the rule-breaking domain, parental warmth did not have a significant direct influence in any of the domains. Fourth, grade differences in multigroup analysis were not confirmed. Conclusion: The results of this study indicated that the aspects of children’s disclosure to parents differed according to the domains of daily activities based on their developmental stages. Also, parent-child attachment could be an important variable to increase children’s disclosure to parents. Disclosure to parents could be important for children in middle as well as late childhood. These results may serve as a foundational resource in developing programs related to the parent-child relationship to increase children’s disclosure.