For ordinary, average parents, it'd be easy to look at Tom Sturges -- no, not Miley Cyrus' squeeze, but rather the executive VP at Universal Music Publishing and son of the late Hollywood screenwriter/director Preston Sturges -- and assume he's the last person from whom you'd want to take parenting advice. I mean, he was probably raised in a bubble of privilege, right? And surely his own children (two boys, ages 10 and 16) had nannies and personal assistants to hand-hold them through the formative years.
Well, guess again: In his rather excellent and practical new book, Parking Lot Rules & 75 Other Ideas for Raising Amazing Children, Sturges shares some of the insight he gained not only as an actively engaged father of two (a role that, having lost his dad at age 3, he had to carve out for himself), but also as an award-winning coach, mentor and volunteer to at-risk children in Los Angeles' public school system. In other words, where raising well-adjusted kids is concerned, our man knows whereof he speaks.
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