Originally Posted by chiefbutz

I am not a parent, but I can tell you how my parents learned to trust me. Over time they saw the decisions I made, the friends I made and such. They saw my good decisions and my bad ones. They saw me stop making many of the bad ones, and start making more of the good ones and I think that is when I started earning their trust. My parents started putting a lot of trust in me near the end of middle school (grades 6-8). In High School they started trusting me more and more. By my senior year of High School they didn't really care much where I was going, but I still told them. I think I have their full trust now and it is something very dear to me because my brother doesn't have anywhere near the trust I had when I was his age.