After careers in financial services, teaching, advising, and career coaching, author Tim Pitts observed that helicopter parenting is increasingly hampering many bright, ambitious young people.
Victims of overprotective parenting, young people too often lack the self-awareness, problem solving skills, and leadership ability that are critical to success in today's high stakes, fast-paced, and increasingly complex world.
Pitts offers valuable advice in Taming Your Tiger Mom, a highly readable and enjoyable exploration of how students and parents can work together to put students on the road to success.
Covering topics such as generational differences, the importance of understanding our kids' dreams and aspirations, networking, resumes, and interviews, Pitts provides practical steps and strategies to turn anxiety and impulses into focused, helpful actions.
Brimming with personal examples and anecdotes, this book is perfect for students, guidance counselors, school administrators, and parents of high school and college students.
Taming Your Tiger Mom is an important read for students and parents.
About the Author: Tim Pitts earned his BA from Roanoke College and an MA from New York University.
Pitts spent twenty-five years in financial services, as an investment executive and sales manager. For the last ten years of his career he was chairman of OppenheimerFunds Distributors.
After leaving the investment business, Pitts pursued his passions for travel, history, and photography for several years before joining the faculty at The Hun School of Princeton. He taught Cold War history, global problems, and leadership.
In 2008 he founded Shameless Self Promotion to help recent college graduates with their careers.
Pitts and his wife, Ellen, live in Savannah, Georgia, where he volunteers as a medical first responder.
