Now that your kids have settled back into school are you seeing signs of their pandemic learning loss? Well, did you know that studies have found concentrated high impact tutoring to be one of the most effective strategies for academic catch up?! Get the details on this and other ways to help your kids get back on track in [...]
Happy Father's Day from GCP! To all of the dads who are guiding and supporting your sons, your daughters, and any other children you’re helping to raise and mold, we salute and appreciate you! I hope that you’ve spent the day being celebrated; you deserve it. To all the single moms, whom we all know hold it down as [...]
It's happening on a horrifyingly regular basis: innocent people in malls, supermarkets, churches, schools, any public place, are being shot by gunmen armed with high powered weapons, fueled by hatred and/or psychotic delusions to commit ghastly violent acts. It is traumatic for adults to hear about these massacres; how do we parents talk with our children about them? GCP [...]
Just when we thought we could catch our breath as pandemic fears ease, we are now watching in horror as Russia invades Ukraine. The news is non-stop, showing us images of bombings, terrified parents and children trying to flee their homes, families being separated as men stay back to fight for their country. It is hard for [...]
Black History Month’s theme this year is Black Health and Wellness, and I’ve been thinking about how important it is for parents to take care of our physical and mental wellness needs. So much of our focus is on our children, families and communities, and we need reminding that we need to focus on staying healthy and strong for [...]
Here at GCP we celebrate Black History every month. But as we head into the first weekend of the "official" Black History Month (which was established in 1967 by President Gerald Ford), today we offer ways for your family to stay especially focused on Black History this month. As we know, school Black History Month tributes can be somewhat [...]
As the summer winds down, the virus numbers trend up, and schools begin to open across the nation: Parents, how are you doing? Are you taking care of yourselves? We need to fasten our seatbelts for the bumpy ride that this fall is promising, as we figure out how to mesh our extreme COVID fatigue, sending our kids back [...]
It’s time to play Season Three’s GCP Bonus Round Matching Game! Many of my Season 3 guests played the #GCP Bonus Round and shared some of their favorite poems, quotes and children's books. As I’ve done at the end of my past two seasons, I’ve created a Matching Game to see if you can match this season’s guests [...]
Hard to believe but we've come to the end of the third season of Ground Control Parenting with Carol Sutton Lewis! So that means it's time for the GCP Podcast Season Three Rewind!! As you’ll hear in the Rewind, this season includes lots of conversations about how to be a better parent in so many aspects of your [...]
The final episode of Season 3 is out now! This week we’ll discover how a widowed janitor living with his kids in a tough Philly neighborhood raised a world class concert pianist and a Fortune 500 CEO. Kenneth Frazier, the highly respected CEO of pharmaceutical giant Merck, joins us to share his powerful story of being raised by [...]
