Welcome to GCP

Carol Sutton Lewis
Founder

Welcome to Ground Control Parenting, a resource for parents of Black and Brown children. Here you will find parenting tips to help develop smart, thoughtful, confident boys and girls. 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 and girls 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? We’ve got answers. Scroll down to see our latest posts, and click on “POSTS” in the menu above to find many more.

How to Celebrate Class of 2020 Grads

By groundcontrolparenting|2023-05-21T07:57:49-04:00May 19th, 2020|Categories: Academics, Ages 16-18, College Bound Students, Featured, Latest News, Resources, Uncategorized|Tags: celebration, congrats, education, graduation, Parenting|

Do you have a child graduating this Spring? Wondering how [...]

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College in the Time of Covid-19: What We Learned, pt. 2

By groundcontrolparenting|2023-05-21T07:57:50-04:00May 14th, 2020|Categories: Academics, Admissions, Ages 13-15, Ages 16-18, College Bound Students, Experts, Featured, Latest News, Parents, Resources, Uncategorized|Tags: college admissions, education, Ground Control Parenting, what it takes|

Last week GCP co-hosted a webinar on the current state [...]

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College in the Time of Covid-19: What We Learned

By groundcontrolparenting|2023-05-21T07:57:50-04:00May 12th, 2020|Categories: Academics, Admissions, Ages 13-15, Ages 16-18, Ages 8-12, College Bound Students, Experts, Featured, Latest News, Parents, Resources, Uncategorized|Tags: black parenting, college admissions, education, Parenting, what it takes|

Thanks to all who attended the GCP/Hunter College Continuing Education [...]

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Happy Mother’s Day from GCP!!!

By groundcontrolparenting|2023-05-21T07:57:50-04:00May 10th, 2020|Categories: Ages 0-5, Ages 13-15, Ages 16-18, Ages 5-7, Ages 8-12, Cultural, Featured, Holidays, Latest News, Parents, Uncategorized|Tags: Ground Control Parenting, poetry|

Happy Mother's Day to all the Moms, Grandmothers, Aunties, Godmothers [...]

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Join GCP Tomorrow for College Admissions in the Time of Covid-19

By groundcontrolparenting|2023-05-21T07:57:50-04:00May 5th, 2020|Categories: Academics, Admissions, Ages 13-15, Ages 16-18, College Bound Students, Featured, Latest News, Parents, Resources|

Our second free webinar, College in the Time of COVID-19, [...]

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Great Advice from “School In the Time of COVID-19” Webinar

By groundcontrolparenting|2023-05-21T07:58:26-04:00April 27th, 2020|Categories: Academics, Ages 0-5, Ages 13-15, Ages 16-18, Ages 5-7, Ages 8-12, Experts, Featured, Latest News, Parents, Resources, Uncategorized|Tags: Covid-19, education, Ground Control Parenting, homeschooling, Parenting, Parenting Advice, what it takes|

Thanks to all who attended the Ground Control Parenting/Hunter College [...]

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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.