August 6, 2025 • 12 mins
As Season 7 of Ground Control Parenting comes to a close, join Carol as she hits rewind to reflect on the powerful insights shared by parenting experts and thought leaders across a range of fields.
This season, the conversations went beyond what we can do to help and support our children and focused on the how. Carol spoke with leading experts about what it really means to parent with purpose and intention—offering actionable tools, real-life strategies, and much-needed reassurance along the way.
Whether you’ve been listening from the start or are just joining the journey, this recap is your go-to guide for the season’s most impactful moments. Tune in to hear about the Season 7 offerings of expert advice that helps you parent with intention, practical tips you can use right now, and inspiring stories to support you on your parenting journey.
Follow Ground Control Parenting:
📱 Instagram, TikTok & Facebook: @GroundControlParenting
💼 LinkedIn: Carol Sutton Lewis
🌐 Website: GroundControlParenting.com
💻And don’t forget to subscribe to the Substack newsletter for behind-the-scenes info, bonus parenting tips, and more!.
This season, the conversations went beyond what we can do to help and support our children and focused on the how. Carol spoke with leading experts about what it really means to parent with purpose and intention—offering actionable tools, real-life strategies, and much-needed reassurance along the way.
Whether you’ve been listening from the start or are just joining the journey, this recap is your go-to guide for the season’s most impactful moments. Tune in to hear about the Season 7 offerings of expert advice that helps you parent with intention, practical tips you can use right now, and inspiring stories to support you on your parenting journey.
Follow Ground Control Parenting:
📱 Instagram, TikTok & Facebook: @GroundControlParenting
💼 LinkedIn: Carol Sutton Lewis
🌐 Website: GroundControlParenting.com
💻And don’t forget to subscribe to the Substack newsletter for behind-the-scenes info, bonus parenting tips, and more!.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hello, and welcome to the season seven rewind of Ground
Control Parenting, the podcast creative for parents raising black and
brown children. I'm the creator and your host, Carol Sutton Lewis.
Here I talk with some really thoughtful and interesting people
about the job and the joy of parenting. So here
we are at the end of season seven, and what
(00:25):
a season it has been. I have to say that
season seven is one of our most powerful seasons yet.
I invited some brilliant parenting experts to help us learn
how to parent with intention, not just telling us what
to do to support and uplift our kids, but exactly
how we can do it. Week after week, we heard
real talk, real tools, and real strategies to help us
(00:46):
raise healthy, emotionally strong kids and to help us show
up as the parents they need us to be. In
this rewind, I'm sharing just a few highlights from this
incredible season. So whether you've been with us from episode
one you're just jumping in, now, here's a taste of
the insights we've gathered along the way. We kicked things
off with an amazing conversation with John B. King Junior,
(01:09):
the former US Secretary of Education. He's had an incredibly extensive,
impactful career from teacher and principal to charter school founder,
to policy leader, and now best selling author of Teacher
by Teacher, The People Who Change Our Lives, his memoir
about the educators who literally saved his life. John joined
me twice this season. In our opener, we talked about
(01:31):
his life and his book. Later in the season, he
shared practical advice for how parents can be learning champions
for our kids. One of my favorite takeaways this reminder
of parents whose kids may be struggling in school.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Another thing I'd say, oh that is important along the
way is if there's something that your child is struggling
with or that you're worried about, communicate with the teacher.
Don't wait and don't miss the opportunity to help the
educators understand your child's needs and challenges. And I think sometimes,
(02:08):
and this can be cultural too, sometimes folks are reluctant,
so I feel like, well, the educators are the experts.
I'm just going to leave it to them. But actually,
you're seeing things as a parent that you can contribute
and that will help the educators not only support your child,
but support all of the students.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Later on in the season, we got more expert advice
from the award winning educator doctor Cecily Woodard about how
to support our kids as they learn. She gave us
so many helpful ways to fight the dreaded summer slide,
when kids can lose two to three months of progress
in math and reading over the summer. I especially loved
how she reminded us that learning opportunities are everywhere, even
(02:51):
at the dinner table.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I remember, as a family of five, we used to
go to this restaurant that separated the ticket by person,
and so just like you talked about, my dad would
have us to estimate how much was it going to
cost based on this receipt with all five of us,
And so all of those things are great ways to
engage students in thinking about mathematics with a parent. And
(03:18):
that really sticks with students because you know, parents love
you like none other, and they can help you to
think about things in ways that you remember and help
you to connect.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
So simple and so doable. We got data driven parenting
advice from economist and best selling author Emily Auster. Emily
is an economics professor at Brown University whose many parenting
books include Expecting Better Crib Sheet, The Family Firm, and
most recently, The Unexpected. Emily uses economic tools to help
parents make clearer, calmer decisions, and this season she joined
(03:55):
us for two great conversations. In our first episode, we
dove into how she uses her analytical skills to examine
and debunk pregnancy and parenting myths and how parents can
use her approach to bring clarity to their parenting decisions
both big and small. And she came back to weigh
in on great parenting questions sent in from Ground Control
parenting listeners, which was so helpful and a lot of fun.
(04:18):
Emily's analysis of common pregnancy and parenting advice was so
instructive and sometimes surprising even to her. For example, here's
our perspective on bed rest during pregnancy.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
There are things in my research that surprised me, sort
of things where like I was like, huh, I like,
you know, in the pregnancy contest bed rest, So bed
rest is something actually still a reasonable share of pregnant
women are prescribed bed rest. It turns out there's basically
nothing for which bad rest is a good treatment.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
That was one of the very surprising things that I read, and.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
It's surprising, I think because it seems sensible.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
It's like it's sort of like evil.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
If only you just lay down right, it would be fine.
Just turns out that's not how it works.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
And I love this reminder she gave us about making
parenting decisions with confidence.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
It's about taking your preferences, like the things that you
care about, looking at this data and deciding based on that,
what's the right decision for me. And I say this
all the time, but you know the right decision for
you is not the right decision for everyone else. And
being relaxed for me, being confident in our choices is
about knowing that we made the decisions that were the
(05:27):
best decisions we could make for us, and that's kind
of all you can ask for.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
We welcome back to pediatric psychologist and parenting coach, doctor
Ann Louise Lockhart from that one but two episodes, both
packed with pearls of wisdom. In our first conversation, doctor
Lockhart focused on emotional intelligence and resilience. She gave us
tools for helping our children name their emotions, regulate the reactions,
and recover from setbacks. I really appreciated how she broke
(05:53):
down the truth that many of us never learned emotional
intelligence growing up, but that it's not too late.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
So basically, it's not something that we necessarily have, it's
something that we'd learn. So just because your kid is
struggling or you as a grownup is struggling, many people
struggle with it as an adult because they never learned it.
It wasn't modeled for them, They never were taught. So
you have kids and then you're automatically expected to be
(06:21):
this mature grown up who knows how to have emotional intelligence.
But if it was never modeled for you and you
never got to practice it, then yeah, maybe that's why
you're raging all the time because that's your go to,
that's your default. So it's not fixed, and that's the
good news. It can be changed and you can grow
it with practice, with self reflection, with self monitoring, and
(06:43):
just learning strategies.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
That's really such a relief to hear.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Right.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
She returned to talk about raising neurodiverse kids. First, she
helped us understand the difference between neurotypical and neurodivergent kids,
and then she advised how to support neurodivergent kids, advocate
for them, and recognize that different doesn't mean broken. She
wants us to rethink what it means when the child
thinks so behaves differently, and to focus on understanding and
(07:08):
celebrating who that child is. She gave us ways to
work with schools and most importantly, ways to reframe challenges
as strengths. Michell Norris, who's a journalist, author of Our
Hidden Conversations, What Americans Really Think about Race and Identity,
and the creator of the Race Card Project, joined us
for an Unforgettable conversation about how we talk to our
(07:29):
kids about race. I really appreciated Michell's insight that family
is both the source of our understanding about race and
often the first place where those perspectives are challenged. While
the desire to keep family secrets about race runs deep
and conversations about race are often charged, Michell notes that
talking about these issues can be freeing, and families may
(07:51):
find it easier these days to share these secrets than
it's been in the past, as.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
She explained, and I'd like to think that these kind
of discussions are easier to hold now. I'd like to
think that we as a country, as divided as we
seem to be in this moment, are getting a little
bit more comfortable with being uncomfortable, and both through family
and through the stories that we tell in popular culture. Also,
(08:16):
you know the things that we see in film and
on streaming and the books that we read, that all
of those create an environment where maybe it's easier to
tell these kinds of stories.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
In this episode, Michel helps us find the words and
the courage to have the hard conversations that truly matter.
Then we tackled another tough but critically important topic, talking
to our kids about drugs. I was joined by Pat
Awesome from the Partnership to End Addiction and Carlias Summers,
recovery advocate and founder of Andrea's House, for a conversation
(08:49):
about how to help our kids navigate today's complex drug landscape.
We covered lots of ground on this topic, from flavored
vapes and the dangers of counterfeit pills to what to
say when your kids ask about your own drug experience.
They gave us tools, timing, and tips for starting these
conversations early and keeping them going. I had two great
conversations with doctor U. J. Blackstock, emergency physician, health equity
(09:13):
champion and best selling author of Legacy, A black Physician
reckons with racism and medicine. In one episode, we talked
about how we can navigate the healthcare system to make
sure our kids get the best possible care. She walked
us through how to do this, from preparing questions for
doctor visits to following up when something doesn't feel right.
She reminded us that parenting with intention means knowing when
(09:35):
and how to advocate fiercely and thoughtfully. In our second conversation,
we focused on the Black maternal health crisis and what parents,
especially moms, can do to stay informed and empowered. She
explained how bias and systemic racism in medicine impact Black
maternal health and what can be done about it. We
talked about ways to mitigate this crisis, how to choose
(09:57):
the right obedin, how duelas and midwile lives can help,
and the push for national policy changes. Doctor Blackstock gave
us so many practical ways to show up and speak up.
And I had a great conversation about Jack and Jill
of America with Darlene McGee Whittingham National President and Tasha V. Penny,
National program Director. So you may have seen recent Jack
(10:19):
and Jill commentary on social media and in this episode,
it was great to go to the source. We talked
about the History Mission and the modern day relevance of
this legacy organization that fosters leadership in black youth. Here
you'll find the most current and accurate information on what
Jack and Jill is and what it does. So if
you've ever wondered what Jack and Jill is really about,
(10:40):
this one's for you. And we wrapped the season with
the amazing Grace Bastidas, parenting journalist and former editor in
chief of Parents. We talked about how powerful it is
for kids to know where they come from, and they
need to be intentional about making sure our children know
our history, our heritage, and our culture. How much it
boosts their self esteem and their resilience. She encouraged us
(11:01):
to look back at our own childhoods and consciously choose
what to pass on and what to let go. There's
no one way to do this, but the key is
doing it with intention well.
Speaker 7 (11:13):
I think the beauty of being first generation and a
first generation parent.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Is that you get to pick the best right.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
You get to pick the best of that culture and
all the things that you want to pass on and
celebrate to your children. You know that when you're thinking
about how to raise children. You don't have to accept everything.
There's always pros and cons to every culture, and things
that are just passed down that you may want to
leave behind and others that you want to take. So
(11:42):
I've been very intentional about bringing all the good stuff
into my family.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
So what did season seven teach us? The Parenting with
intention is about the small, thoughtful actions we take and
the decisions we make every day and trusting that they
can have big, lasting impact. It's about curiosity, not fear.
It's about being present, asking for help, being honest, and
remembering that we are all learning as we go. I'm
(12:09):
so thankful to our guests for sharing their wisdom, to
our sponsor Paramount, to the Seneca Women Podcast Network, and
most of all, to you are listeners. Thank you for
joining me this season. If you missed an episode, please
go back and listen. They are so worth your time.
And if you heard something that helped you or made
you think differently, please re listen, send it to friends,
(12:31):
share it in your communities, keep the parenting wisdom going,
and don't forget to follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and
tik tok at Ground Control Parenting for more insights and
behind the scenes clips. Come say hi. We'll be back
soon at season eight, and I cannot wait to share
what's next Until then, take care and thanks for listening.
Hello, and welcome to the season seven rewind of Ground
Control Parenting, the podcast creative for parents raising black and
brown children. I'm the creator and your host, Carol Sutton Lewis.
Here I talk with some really thoughtful and interesting people
about the job and the joy of parenting. So here
we are at the end of season seven, and what
(00:25):
a season it has been. I have to say that
season seven is one of our most powerful seasons yet.
I invited some brilliant parenting experts to help us learn
how to parent with intention, not just telling us what
to do to support and uplift our kids, but exactly
how we can do it. Week after week, we heard
real talk, real tools, and real strategies to help us
(00:46):
raise healthy, emotionally strong kids and to help us show
up as the parents they need us to be. In
this rewind, I'm sharing just a few highlights from this
incredible season. So whether you've been with us from episode
one you're just jumping in, now, here's a taste of
the insights we've gathered along the way. We kicked things
off with an amazing conversation with John B. King Junior,
(01:09):
the former US Secretary of Education. He's had an incredibly extensive,
impactful career from teacher and principal to charter school founder,
to policy leader, and now best selling author of Teacher
by Teacher, The People Who Change Our Lives, his memoir
about the educators who literally saved his life. John joined
me twice this season. In our opener, we talked about
(01:31):
his life and his book. Later in the season, he
shared practical advice for how parents can be learning champions
for our kids. One of my favorite takeaways this reminder
of parents whose kids may be struggling in school.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Another thing I'd say, oh that is important along the
way is if there's something that your child is struggling
with or that you're worried about, communicate with the teacher.
Don't wait and don't miss the opportunity to help the
educators understand your child's needs and challenges. And I think sometimes,
(02:08):
and this can be cultural too, sometimes folks are reluctant,
so I feel like, well, the educators are the experts.
I'm just going to leave it to them. But actually,
you're seeing things as a parent that you can contribute
and that will help the educators not only support your child,
but support all of the students.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Later on in the season, we got more expert advice
from the award winning educator doctor Cecily Woodard about how
to support our kids as they learn. She gave us
so many helpful ways to fight the dreaded summer slide,
when kids can lose two to three months of progress
in math and reading over the summer. I especially loved
how she reminded us that learning opportunities are everywhere, even
(02:51):
at the dinner table.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I remember, as a family of five, we used to
go to this restaurant that separated the ticket by person,
and so just like you talked about, my dad would
have us to estimate how much was it going to
cost based on this receipt with all five of us,
And so all of those things are great ways to
engage students in thinking about mathematics with a parent. And
(03:18):
that really sticks with students because you know, parents love
you like none other, and they can help you to
think about things in ways that you remember and help
you to connect.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
So simple and so doable. We got data driven parenting
advice from economist and best selling author Emily Auster. Emily
is an economics professor at Brown University whose many parenting
books include Expecting Better Crib Sheet, The Family Firm, and
most recently, The Unexpected. Emily uses economic tools to help
parents make clearer, calmer decisions, and this season she joined
(03:55):
us for two great conversations. In our first episode, we
dove into how she uses her analytical skills to examine
and debunk pregnancy and parenting myths and how parents can
use her approach to bring clarity to their parenting decisions
both big and small. And she came back to weigh
in on great parenting questions sent in from Ground Control
parenting listeners, which was so helpful and a lot of fun.
(04:18):
Emily's analysis of common pregnancy and parenting advice was so
instructive and sometimes surprising even to her. For example, here's
our perspective on bed rest during pregnancy.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
There are things in my research that surprised me, sort
of things where like I was like, huh, I like,
you know, in the pregnancy contest bed rest, So bed
rest is something actually still a reasonable share of pregnant
women are prescribed bed rest. It turns out there's basically
nothing for which bad rest is a good treatment.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
That was one of the very surprising things that I read, and.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
It's surprising, I think because it seems sensible.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
It's like it's sort of like evil.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
If only you just lay down right, it would be fine.
Just turns out that's not how it works.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
And I love this reminder she gave us about making
parenting decisions with confidence.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
It's about taking your preferences, like the things that you
care about, looking at this data and deciding based on that,
what's the right decision for me. And I say this
all the time, but you know the right decision for
you is not the right decision for everyone else. And
being relaxed for me, being confident in our choices is
about knowing that we made the decisions that were the
(05:27):
best decisions we could make for us, and that's kind
of all you can ask for.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
We welcome back to pediatric psychologist and parenting coach, doctor
Ann Louise Lockhart from that one but two episodes, both
packed with pearls of wisdom. In our first conversation, doctor
Lockhart focused on emotional intelligence and resilience. She gave us
tools for helping our children name their emotions, regulate the reactions,
and recover from setbacks. I really appreciated how she broke
(05:53):
down the truth that many of us never learned emotional
intelligence growing up, but that it's not too late.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
So basically, it's not something that we necessarily have, it's
something that we'd learn. So just because your kid is
struggling or you as a grownup is struggling, many people
struggle with it as an adult because they never learned it.
It wasn't modeled for them, They never were taught. So
you have kids and then you're automatically expected to be
(06:21):
this mature grown up who knows how to have emotional intelligence.
But if it was never modeled for you and you
never got to practice it, then yeah, maybe that's why
you're raging all the time because that's your go to,
that's your default. So it's not fixed, and that's the
good news. It can be changed and you can grow
it with practice, with self reflection, with self monitoring, and
(06:43):
just learning strategies.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
That's really such a relief to hear.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Right.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
She returned to talk about raising neurodiverse kids. First, she
helped us understand the difference between neurotypical and neurodivergent kids,
and then she advised how to support neurodivergent kids, advocate
for them, and recognize that different doesn't mean broken. She
wants us to rethink what it means when the child
thinks so behaves differently, and to focus on understanding and
(07:08):
celebrating who that child is. She gave us ways to
work with schools and most importantly, ways to reframe challenges
as strengths. Michell Norris, who's a journalist, author of Our
Hidden Conversations, What Americans Really Think about Race and Identity,
and the creator of the Race Card Project, joined us
for an Unforgettable conversation about how we talk to our
(07:29):
kids about race. I really appreciated Michell's insight that family
is both the source of our understanding about race and
often the first place where those perspectives are challenged. While
the desire to keep family secrets about race runs deep
and conversations about race are often charged, Michell notes that
talking about these issues can be freeing, and families may
(07:51):
find it easier these days to share these secrets than
it's been in the past, as.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
She explained, and I'd like to think that these kind
of discussions are easier to hold now. I'd like to
think that we as a country, as divided as we
seem to be in this moment, are getting a little
bit more comfortable with being uncomfortable, and both through family
and through the stories that we tell in popular culture. Also,
(08:16):
you know the things that we see in film and
on streaming and the books that we read, that all
of those create an environment where maybe it's easier to
tell these kinds of stories.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
In this episode, Michel helps us find the words and
the courage to have the hard conversations that truly matter.
Then we tackled another tough but critically important topic, talking
to our kids about drugs. I was joined by Pat
Awesome from the Partnership to End Addiction and Carlias Summers,
recovery advocate and founder of Andrea's House, for a conversation
(08:49):
about how to help our kids navigate today's complex drug landscape.
We covered lots of ground on this topic, from flavored
vapes and the dangers of counterfeit pills to what to
say when your kids ask about your own drug experience.
They gave us tools, timing, and tips for starting these
conversations early and keeping them going. I had two great
conversations with doctor U. J. Blackstock, emergency physician, health equity
(09:13):
champion and best selling author of Legacy, A black Physician
reckons with racism and medicine. In one episode, we talked
about how we can navigate the healthcare system to make
sure our kids get the best possible care. She walked
us through how to do this, from preparing questions for
doctor visits to following up when something doesn't feel right.
She reminded us that parenting with intention means knowing when
(09:35):
and how to advocate fiercely and thoughtfully. In our second conversation,
we focused on the Black maternal health crisis and what parents,
especially moms, can do to stay informed and empowered. She
explained how bias and systemic racism in medicine impact Black
maternal health and what can be done about it. We
talked about ways to mitigate this crisis, how to choose
(09:57):
the right obedin, how duelas and midwile lives can help,
and the push for national policy changes. Doctor Blackstock gave
us so many practical ways to show up and speak up.
And I had a great conversation about Jack and Jill
of America with Darlene McGee Whittingham National President and Tasha V. Penny,
National program Director. So you may have seen recent Jack
(10:19):
and Jill commentary on social media and in this episode,
it was great to go to the source. We talked
about the History Mission and the modern day relevance of
this legacy organization that fosters leadership in black youth. Here
you'll find the most current and accurate information on what
Jack and Jill is and what it does. So if
you've ever wondered what Jack and Jill is really about,
(10:40):
this one's for you. And we wrapped the season with
the amazing Grace Bastidas, parenting journalist and former editor in
chief of Parents. We talked about how powerful it is
for kids to know where they come from, and they
need to be intentional about making sure our children know
our history, our heritage, and our culture. How much it
boosts their self esteem and their resilience. She encouraged us
(11:01):
to look back at our own childhoods and consciously choose
what to pass on and what to let go. There's
no one way to do this, but the key is
doing it with intention well.
Speaker 7 (11:13):
I think the beauty of being first generation and a
first generation parent.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Is that you get to pick the best right.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
You get to pick the best of that culture and
all the things that you want to pass on and
celebrate to your children. You know that when you're thinking
about how to raise children. You don't have to accept everything.
There's always pros and cons to every culture, and things
that are just passed down that you may want to
leave behind and others that you want to take. So
(11:42):
I've been very intentional about bringing all the good stuff
into my family.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
So what did season seven teach us? The Parenting with
intention is about the small, thoughtful actions we take and
the decisions we make every day and trusting that they
can have big, lasting impact. It's about curiosity, not fear.
It's about being present, asking for help, being honest, and
remembering that we are all learning as we go. I'm
(12:09):
so thankful to our guests for sharing their wisdom, to
our sponsor Paramount, to the Seneca Women Podcast Network, and
most of all, to you are listeners. Thank you for
joining me this season. If you missed an episode, please
go back and listen. They are so worth your time.
And if you heard something that helped you or made
you think differently, please re listen, send it to friends,
(12:31):
share it in your communities, keep the parenting wisdom going,
and don't forget to follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and
tik tok at Ground Control Parenting for more insights and
behind the scenes clips. Come say hi. We'll be back
soon at season eight, and I cannot wait to share
what's next Until then, take care and thanks for listening.
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