"During the formative and teenage years, it is actually more essential for the parents to earn trust with the child than it is for the child to earn trust with the parents."
The point the author is making is that parenting is all about children trusting in us and their relationship with us - that is what is going to motivate them to follow our guidelines and rules when they don't like them and don't understand them.
Just like how God asks us to trust in His love and wisdom when we don't want to obey him. We can't figure everything (or most things) out, but we do know He is a good God and so we follow.
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