The Parallel Process Quotes

“Parents, in essence, have to train themselves to sidestep their child’s schemes by avoiding content, and moving toward real dialogue, or sharing feelings.”
― Krissy Pozatek, The Parallel Process: Growing Alongside Your Adolescent or Young Adult Child in Treatment

“delay gratification, learn self-awareness, regulate their emotions, communicate effectively, and become resilient.”
― Krissy Pozatek, The Parallel Process: Growing Alongside Your Adolescent or Young Adult Child in Treatment

“Lacking the essential internal resources necessary for adult life: problem-solving, delayed gratification, internal motivation, resiliency, emotional regulation, and self-discipline. Many of these kids may even feel out of control. lily As soon as Lily, who’d just turned seventeen, stepped off the truck and into the wilderness-therapy program, she sat down on the side of the road: “I’m just going to wait until my mom and dad come to get me,” she said. “Because this must be a mistake. My parents would never send me to a wilderness”
― Krissy Pozatek, The Parallel Process: Growing Alongside Your Adolescent or Young Adult Child in Treatment

“Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.”11”
― Krissy Pozatek, The Parallel Process: Growing Alongside Your Adolescent or Young Adult Child in Treatment