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: Inspiration for Graduates
Graduation season is upon us! (We at GCP are especially excited about this, as one of our young'uns is graduating in a few weeks.) For this week's Thoughtful Thursday offering, we are serving up a few quotes from commencement speeches to inspire us all. Enjoy. [...]
Thoughtful Thursday: May Day
Today, May 1st, is May Day. May Day celebrates the arrival of Spring, and in many parts of the world children dance around the maypole as part of the May Day commemoration. In many cultures, May Day, also known as International Worker's Day or Labor [...]
CONNECT WITH US
Not A GCP subscriber yet? Sign up here and we’ll send you all new posts as soon as they come out!