Greetings, there is nothing incorrect about the usage in your sentence. As you know, it means that you succeeded in communicating your ideas in a comprehensible way to your parents. Additionally, the phrasal verb is often used without the following prepositional to- phrase: He has taken out a half-page advertisement in his local paper to put his point across ...
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