Dr. Jameca CooperForensic Psychology Consultant, Emergence Psychological Services · Board Certified Counseling Psychologist and Forensic Psychology Consultant

Trust is earned. Not given. Read that again #trust #genx #boomer #parentingreality #genxenergy

19 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief YouTube excerpt, two speakers discuss a parenting dispute centered on a child's habit of closing his bedroom door against a parent’s instruction. Speaker A confronts the child, asserting that the closed door signifies a breach of trust, and refuses to trust the child while the door remains closed. Speaker B expands the point, linking the incident to broader generational attitudes—particularly those of Generation X and Boomers—by emphasizing that trust is not automatically granted but must be earned. The dialogue uses the physical door as a symbolic representation of trust, illustrating how trust can be lost and restored through tangible consequences (e.g., placing a sheet where the door was). The overall message is that trust is a earned commodity, and the loss of it can serve as a significant teaching moment for the child.

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What is this? First of all, this is my door. Second of all, this is your new door, so you might want to hang that up. That way you can go ahead and close your door like you've been doing. For what? Because I told you not to close the door. Every time I walk by your room, your door is magically closed, even though we've already had this conversation. And I'm not about to trust you with your door closed because I can't trust you with your door open.
This is definitely one unique thing about Generation X, and probably Boomers too. We don't just automatically grant you our trust. You have to earn it. And in this case, he had the trust, because he had a door on his room, but now he lost it. And now he's gonna get a little sheet on his door, or where the door was, as his door, because he lost the trust. Now he will better understand trust and how you build it, but also how you lose it. So it will be a much more significant lesson this time, if and when he gets