Parenting Archives - Jennifer A Douglas https://jenniferadouglas.com/tag/parenting/ Author and DCIS Patient Advocate Wed, 20 May 2026 19:54:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://jenniferadouglas.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/cropped-JAD-Submark-2022-ltpink-32x32.png Parenting Archives - Jennifer A Douglas https://jenniferadouglas.com/tag/parenting/ 32 32 173738246 When Anxiety Wakes You Up at 5 AM: A Lesson in Zooming Out https://jenniferadouglas.com/when-anxiety-wakes-you-up-zooming-out/ https://jenniferadouglas.com/when-anxiety-wakes-you-up-zooming-out/#respond Wed, 20 May 2026 19:53:56 +0000 https://jenniferadouglas.com/?p=6214 When anxiety pulls you into everyone else's world, how do you find your way back to yourself? One early morning lesson in zooming out — and why it changed everything.

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]]> https://jenniferadouglas.com/the-closing-of-act-2-the-college-goodbye/feed/ 0 4934 College Move-In: Surprise! https://jenniferadouglas.com/college-move-in-surprise/ https://jenniferadouglas.com/college-move-in-surprise/#respond Fri, 01 Sep 2023 20:02:46 +0000 https://jenniferadouglas.com/?p=4893 After arriving in Tuscaloosa late on Thursday night, we were all happy to see our beds. It had been a long day for all of us! There was no necessary early-morning wakeup. Just a leisurely Friday to look forward to.
Or so we thought.

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]]> https://jenniferadouglas.com/college-move-in-surprise/feed/ 0 4893 From California to the University of Alabama: Preparing for A Cross-Country College Move-In https://jenniferadouglas.com/preparing-for-a-cross-country-college-move-in/ https://jenniferadouglas.com/preparing-for-a-cross-country-college-move-in/#respond Fri, 25 Aug 2023 19:10:43 +0000 https://jenniferadouglas.com/?p=4869 Orchestrating all the moving pieces for a cross-country college move-in requires planning, adjusting, and flexibility! How would we get from California to Alabama?

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]]> https://jenniferadouglas.com/preparing-for-a-cross-country-college-move-in/feed/ 0 4869 Student to Teacher Ratio- Our One Big Reason For Schooling at Home https://jenniferadouglas.com/choosing-to-school-at-home/ https://jenniferadouglas.com/choosing-to-school-at-home/#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2020 11:00:00 +0000 https://jenniferadouglas.com/?p=1548 What was our one big reason for choosing to school at home? It was definitely a small student-teacher ratio!

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