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.
Latest Posts
Caring in this Crisis: Helping Others
In an earlier post we talked about the importance of [...]
The Latest in Online Resources: Wide Open School from Common Sense Media
Hang in there, homeschooling parents, more help is on the [...]
The Latest Online Learning Resources from Common Sense, You Tube and More!
Need more homeschooling materials? Here are the latest online learning [...]
Just Launched: Free AP Review Classes from the College Board
Do you have a high schooler who had planned to [...]
Caring in this Crisis: Helping Yourself
Parents, how are you doing in all of this craziness? [...]
More Great Online Homeschooling Resources For Parents and Students
Trying not to overwhelm you all, but we want to [...]
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: Celebrating Toni Morrison & June Jordan
March is Woman's History Month, and in celebration today's Thoughtful [...]
Thoughtful Thursday: Kevin Young
Today's Thoughtful Thursday is dedicated to the award winning poet [...]