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
Online Help for High Schoolers from MIT
You may have already heard the news that MIT has [...]
What Works: Black Male Student Success in College
The Center for the Study of Race and Equity in [...]
Help Our Sons Learn Our History: Watch “Freedom Riders” TONIGHT!
Tonight PBS is airing "Freedom Riders", Stanley Nelson's award-winning documentary [...]
Super Bowl Life Lessons
Today's inspiring stories for your sons (and for you as [...]
Help Our Sons Learn Our History: Watch “Slavery By Any Other Name”
It's February. Black History Month. While many of us wonder [...]
Another Noteworthy Parenting Site
Check out Scholastic.com's parent section, found here, for a ton [...]
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: We Real Cool
After a wonderful Spring Break, is GCP back in action [...]
Thoughtful Thursday: Spring?!
Could it be that here in NYC, where we have [...]