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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: Phenomenal Women
An interesting hodgepodge of poetry for today's Thoughtful Thursday. March being Women's History Month, we at GCP want to pay tribute to women, in all of their facets and all of their glory. So we will start with Maya Angelou's classic "Phenomenal Women", and then [...]
Thoughtful Thursday: Maya Angelou
Today's Thoughtful Thursday features Maya Angelou, the esteemed poet and author. Here are two of her poems which commemorate memorable occasions. The first, "On the Pulse of Morning", was written for and delivered by Angelou at the 1993 inauguration of Bill Clinton. This is followed [...]
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