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.

Tell Your Sons: Listen to the Grammy Winning Audiobook “I am Malala”

By groundcontrolparenting|2023-05-21T16:44:35-04:00February 9th, 2015|Categories: Academics, Ages 13-15, Ages 8-12, Books|

Last night's Grammys were full of interesting performances and surprising [...]

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Parents Matter: Star Athlete Listens to Mom and Dad, Chooses Harvard

By groundcontrolparenting|2023-05-21T16:44:36-04:00February 2nd, 2015|Categories: Academics, Featured, Latest News, Motivators, Sports, Uncategorized|

A recent NYTimes article tells a great story that is [...]

A Parent’s Nightmare: Campus Police Pulled a Gun on his College Student Son

By groundcontrolparenting|2023-05-21T16:44:36-04:00January 26th, 2015|Categories: Academics, College Bound Students, Featured, Latest News, Saving Our Sons, Uncategorized|

NYTimes columnist Charles Blow writes today of getting a call [...]

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#SelmaForStudents: New Cities Added

By groundcontrolparenting|2023-05-21T16:44:36-04:00January 17th, 2015|Categories: Entertainment, Featured, Films, Latest News, Saving Our Sons|

Today 12 additional cities joined the #SelmaForStudents movement and announced [...]

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#SelmaForStudents: Nationwide and Going Strong

By groundcontrolparenting|2023-05-21T16:44:36-04:00January 15th, 2015|Categories: Films, Latest News, Uncategorized|

Great news: The #SelmaforStudents movement has sent over 275,000 students [...]

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#SelmaforStudents is The Story of a Movement Too

By groundcontrolparenting|2023-05-21T16:44:36-04:00January 12th, 2015|Categories: Featured, Latest News, Motivators, Saving Our Sons|

"Selma is the story of a movement" reads the promotional [...]

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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.