Happy Holidays and Happy New Year from Ground Control Parenting! Hope you have enjoyed good times with your families during the holidays. At GCP we are looking forward to another year of keeping you posted on a variety of issues, tips and resources to help guide our sons through school and life. We have quite a few New Year's [...]
Hope you had a wonderful Fourth of July celebration with your sons, daughters, and your entire family!!!
If you are looking for interesting ways to enable your children to focus on the life and work of Dr. King on his holiday, take a look at the King lessons and activities on educationworld.com, found here. Although these activities were collected for teachers to use in the classroom, many of them are easy for you to do with [...]
Here's an important New Year's Resolution to add to your list: Get more engaged and involved with your son's education in 2012!!! According to research reviewed by the National Coalition for Parent Involvement, when parents are involved with their child’s education, the student earns higher grades and tests scores, has better social skills, and is more likely to enroll [...]
A New Year with GCP!! In 2012 GCP will be bringing you more posts, additional perspectives, and lots of good parenting information. We want to be your go-to site for parenting our sons. Stay tuned, stay connected, and let us hear from you in 2012!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!! Here's hoping that 2012 brings good health and happiness to parents and children everywhere!!!
Thinking about what to get for your toddler, preschooler or kindergarten child for Christmas or an upcoming birthday? How about blocks? Yes, those solid, wooden, indestructible blocks that we all loved to stack up and noisily knock down when we were young. According to an article in today's New York Times, found here, blocks are having a resurgence in [...]
Now that our sons are back in school, it’s time for parents to focus on our Back to School To Do List. Here are a few things you can do to help your son start the school year well: •Review your son’s schedule. Find out what you can about the teachers from your son, other parents and whatever adult [...]
Although it’s only the week before Easter, before you know it school will be out for the summer. When we were young many of us spent our summers hanging out with friends on stoops, in the park, at the beach or community pool, or, only if our parents or teachers insisted, in summer school. Today there is a dizzying [...]