ABOUT US
Carol Sutton Lewis
Founder
Welcome to Ground Control Parenting (GCP), a resource for parents of Black and Brown boys. Here you will find parenting tips to help develop smart, thoughtful, confident boys and young men. We are especially focused on issues of identity and education.
Ground Control Parenting offers practical information about and resources for what works. Want to know what can spark the love of learning for our boys from birth? How to keep them engaged in school from nursery through high school? How to help them understand their history and be prepared for their future? How to help them feel good about themselves along the way? You can find that and more here.
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THOUGHTFUL THURSDAY: POETRY AND MORE
GCP offers poetry and words of inspiration in our Thoughtful Thursday posts. We focus on a theme for each Thursday and include works from poets of color across the generations. Share with your children and enjoy.
Thoughtful Thursday: Nikki Giovanni and Carla Hayden Love Libraries
Don't you just love a good public library? Those of us born in the pre-internet world fondly remember wandering up and down the isles of the local public library, looking for the next great read or the critical info for that paper due too soon. [...]
Thoughtful Thursday: Kevin Young
Today's Thoughtful Thursday (actually, "Thoughtful The Day after Thursday" this week) shines the spotlight on the amazing Kevin Young, aka "One of the Hardest Working men in Poetbiz". Young was born in 1970 in Lincoln, Nebraska. He received his BA from Harvard University in 1992 [...]
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