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.
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: Students and Teachers
Even as we enjoy the last bit of summer vacation, we at GCP are already thinking about school's return. Today's Thoughtful Thursday offers up a student and a teacher's perspective on a day's lesson. Acclaimed Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes provides the student's perspective in [...]
Thoughtful Thursday: Black Lives Matter
As we approach the one year anniversary of the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, we present poetry old and new which references the past and present struggles for equality. "The Tradition" is by Jericho Brown, an associate professor at Emory University in Atlanta. "Let [...]
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