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

Report Cards: Celebrate the “E’s”

By groundcontrolparenting|2023-05-21T16:38:04-04:00June 29th, 2013|Categories: Academics, Ages 13-15, Ages 16-18, Ages 5-7, Ages 8-12, Math, Parents|

School is out for most of the nation, which means [...]

2

Help Our Sons Learn Our History: The Civil Rights Movement

By groundcontrolparenting|2023-05-21T16:38:04-04:00June 27th, 2013|Categories: Holidays, Parents|

On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated a key section [...]

Comments Off

Class of 2013: Social Consciousness and Global Perspective

By groundcontrolparenting|2023-05-21T16:37:10-04:00June 25th, 2013|Categories: College Bound Students|

Yesterday's post featured Dr. Robert M. Franklin's powerful commencement speech [...]

Comments Off

Class of 2013: The “Five Wells” of Renaissance Men

By groundcontrolparenting|2023-05-21T16:37:10-04:00June 24th, 2013|Categories: Academics, College Bound Students, Motivators|Tags: education, graduation, Ground Control Parenting|

As June comes to a close, GCP congratulates all of [...]

Comments Off

What’s Going On?

By groundcontrolparenting|2023-05-21T16:37:10-04:00June 21st, 2013|Categories: Parents|

Some interesting information to check out this weekend: 10 Most [...]

Comments Off

Do Something

By groundcontrolparenting|2023-05-21T16:37:10-04:00June 19th, 2013|Categories: Saving Our Sons|

Inspiration for today's post came in a conversation this afternoon [...]

Comments Off

Previous 626364 Next

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.