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

Parenting a Potential Star Athlete

By groundcontrolparenting|2023-05-21T16:36:17-04:00February 17th, 2013|Categories: Parents, Sports|

Today's New York Times has two articles in its sports [...]

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Reflections of a Divorced GCP Dad: On Being There

By groundcontrolparenting|2023-05-21T16:36:17-04:00February 13th, 2013|Categories: Guest Bloggers, Parents|

Today's post comes courtesy of GCP Dad Michael Mayfield, who [...]

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Should You Redshirt Your Son For Kindergarten?

By groundcontrolparenting|2023-05-21T16:36:17-04:00February 9th, 2013|Categories: Academics, Ages 0-5|

During February and March, K-12 independent schools across the country [...]

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Help Our Sons Learn our History: Black History Month

By groundcontrolparenting|2023-05-21T16:36:17-04:00February 1st, 2013|Categories: Holidays|Tags: history|

It's February. Black History Month. While many of us wonder [...]

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Parenting Tips and Resources to Beat the Winter Blahs

By groundcontrolparenting|2023-05-21T16:36:17-04:00January 31st, 2013|Categories: Parents, Resources|

It is the end of January, the time of year [...]

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Perceptions and Reality

By groundcontrolparenting|2023-05-21T16:36:17-04:00January 14th, 2013|Categories: Parents|

Public School 163, an elementary school on the Upper West [...]

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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.