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

Messy Kids, Crazed Parents

By groundcontrolparenting|2012-11-08T23:06:02-05:00November 8th, 2012|Categories: Ages 0-5, Ages 13-15, Ages 16-18, Ages 5-7, Ages 8-12, Parents|

"Teenage Bedroom as Battleground", a recent NY Times article found [...]

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What Color is Your Princess?

By groundcontrolparenting|2012-10-28T22:13:32-04:00October 28th, 2012|Categories: Parents|Tags: News|

Am passing on to you all a delightful and witty [...]

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How All Children Succeed: Managing Stress and the Benefits of Failure

By groundcontrolparenting|2012-10-25T22:37:43-04:00October 25th, 2012|Categories: Ages 0-5, Ages 13-15, Ages 5-7, Ages 8-12, Parents, Resources|

The last post introduced the education experts at yesterday's panel [...]

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How All Children Succeed

By groundcontrolparenting|2023-05-21T16:22:16-04:00October 24th, 2012|Categories: Ages 0-5, Ages 13-15, Ages 5-7, Ages 8-12, Resources|

This morning I attended a fascinating panel discussion of educational [...]

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Ask Dr. Michael G. Thompson: Educating Our Sons

By groundcontrolparenting|2023-05-21T16:22:16-04:00October 23rd, 2012|Categories: Experts, Guest Bloggers, Resources|

How can we help our wonderful, maddening, lovable, frustrating, genius, [...]

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“Admitted But Left Out”: Important But Incomplete

By groundcontrolparenting|2023-05-21T16:22:16-04:00October 21st, 2012|Categories: Admissions|

Today's New York Times includes the article "Admitted But Left [...]

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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.