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Fight Pandemic Learning Loss with Learning Heroes

Now that your kids have settled back into school are you seeing signs of their pandemic learning loss?  Well, did you know that studies have found concentrated high impact tutoring to be one of the most effective strategies for academic catch up?!  Get the details on this and other ways to help your kids get back on track in [...]

By |2023-05-21T07:55:41-04:00September 13th, 2022|Ages 0-4, Ages 0-5, Ages 13-15, Ages 16-18, Ages 5-7, Ages 8-12, Experts, Featured, Latest News, Motivators, Parents, Resources, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Fight Pandemic Learning Loss with Learning Heroes

How To Talk With Your Kids About Ukraine

    Just when we thought we could catch our breath as pandemic fears ease, we are now watching in horror as Russia invades Ukraine. The news is non-stop, showing us images of bombings, terrified parents and children trying to flee their homes, families being separated as men stay back to fight for their country. It is hard for [...]

By |2023-05-21T07:55:42-04:00March 14th, 2022|Ages 0-4, Ages 0-5, Ages 13-15, Ages 16-18, Ages 5-7, Ages 8-12, College Bound Students, Experts, Featured, Latest News, Parents, Resources, Uncategorized|Comments Off on How To Talk With Your Kids About Ukraine

Helping Your Children Manage Tech!!

In this week’s Ground Control Parenting with Carol Sutton Lewis podcast episode, we tackle tech questions that many parents are asking these days:  how do we help our children manage and balance their ongoing tech use when they still seem to need their devices now more than ever?  How can we find out more about these videos and apps [...]

By |2023-05-21T07:56:37-04:00May 18th, 2021|Ages 0-4, Ages 0-5, Ages 13-15, Ages 16-18, Ages 5-7, Ages 8-12, Entertainment, Experts, Featured, Interviews, Latest News, Motivators, Podcast, Resources, Saving Our Sons, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Helping Your Children Manage Tech!!

#GCP’s First IG Live!! ICYMI: Details and The Link

We had such a great conversation with Dr. Janice Johnson Dias in this week's podcast, talking  about helping our children develop a core of confidence, what we need to resolve in ourselves to be joyful parents, and so much more, that we decided to continue the conversation today on Instagram Live! In today's conversation Janice and I returned to [...]

By |2023-05-21T07:56:37-04:00April 29th, 2021|Ages 0-4, Ages 0-5, Ages 13-15, Ages 16-18, Ages 5-7, Books, Experts, Featured, Interviews, Latest News, Motivators, Parents, Podcast, Resources, Uncategorized|Comments Off on #GCP’s First IG Live!! ICYMI: Details and The Link

Celebrating Black History Month 2021

Here at GCP we celebrate Black History every month. But since today is the first day of the "official" Black History Month (which was established in 1967 by President Gerald Ford), we are offering a few great ways for your family to place a special focus on Black History this month. 1. Talk about your Family History. If your [...]

By |2023-05-21T07:56:38-04:00February 1st, 2021|Ages 0-4, Ages 0-5, Ages 13-15, Ages 16-18, Ages 5-7, Ages 8-12, Books, Cultural, Featured, Latest News, Resources, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Celebrating Black History Month 2021

Making The Best of It with Nancy Redd

In this week's podcast episode, Making the Best of It with Nancy Redd, best-selling author and on-air host Nancy Redd talks about the values that stem from her Southern roots and shares some of the unexpected silver linings which have emerged from months of quarantining with her husband and their 9 & 6 year olds. You'll hear how she [...]

By |2023-05-21T07:56:38-04:00January 27th, 2021|Ages 0-4, Ages 0-5, Ages 13-15, Ages 16-18, Ages 5-7, Ages 8-12, Entertainment, Experts, Featured, Latest News, Parents, Podcast, Resources, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Making The Best of It with Nancy Redd

Getting Smart About Art with Franklin Sirmans

Why show art to an infant?  Why should we encourage our children to “get lost” in paintings? What’s the art and social justice connection? Who are some of the African-American artists whose work we and our children should get to know?  This week on the Ground Control Parenting with Carol Sutton Lewis podcast, Franklin Sirmans, director of Pérez Art [...]

By |2023-05-21T07:56:38-04:00January 22nd, 2021|Ages 0-4, Ages 0-5, Ages 13-15, Ages 16-18, Ages 5-7, Ages 8-12, Cultural, Experts, Featured, Interviews, Latest News, Parents, Podcast, Resources, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Getting Smart About Art with Franklin Sirmans

Need a Break? Elmo’s Playdate is on TONIGHT at 7pm EDT!

Tonight, Elmo is hosting a virtual playdate, and everyone's invited!!  Elmo and his friends are all stuck at home during this pandemic, and his mommy and daddy have helped him set up a video play date with lots of his Sesame Street and celebrity friends including Tracee Ellis Ross and Lin Manuel Miranda.  This half hour of fun premieres [...]

By |2023-05-21T07:58:27-04:00April 14th, 2020|Ages 0-4, Ages 0-5, Ages 13-15, Ages 16-18, Ages 5-7, Entertainment, Featured, Latest News, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Need a Break? Elmo’s Playdate is on TONIGHT at 7pm EDT!

The Latest Online Learning Resources from Common Sense, You Tube and More!

Need more homeschooling materials?  Here are the latest online learning resources to help you and your children: Common Sense Media, a trusted guide for media and technology, has just released customizable learning packets for K- 2nd grade students.  While these packets were principally designed for teachers, they are intended for use by parents and children as well. The materials [...]

By |2023-05-21T17:59:47-04:00March 27th, 2020|Academics, Ages 0-4, Ages 0-5, Ages 13-15, Ages 16-18, Ages 8-12, Books, Featured, Latest News, Parents, Resources, Uncategorized|Comments Off on The Latest Online Learning Resources from Common Sense, You Tube and More!

Is There A Baby in Your Life? You Need To Know The Basics

To all you new moms (and friends of new moms ):  did you know that 80% of a child's brain growth happens in the first three years of its life? And that there are a few everyday activities that you can do with a child in those first three years to make a big impact on it's learning?  You [...]

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