{"product_id":"growing-up-limiting-adolescence-in-a-world-desperate-for-adults-9781770975576","title":"Growing Up: Limiting Adolescence in a World Desperate for Adults","description":"How do we become adults? Is it by moving out of our parents'\u003cbr\u003ehouse? Earning an independent income? Getting married? Having\u003cbr\u003echildren? Buying a house? Those are the benchmarks most of us\u003cbr\u003euse, but Growing Up suggests that maturity is more about qualities\u003cbr\u003eof character. Through the poignant stories of nearly half a century\u003cbr\u003eworking with young people as a teacher, school administrator, \u003cbr\u003ehigh school and college chaplain, parish priest, and father of three, \u003cbr\u003eFrank Strasburger shares the encouraging news that the pace and\u003cbr\u003epower with which we become adults is largely within our control.\u003cbr\u003eChapter by chapter, he unfolds the real process of growing up: \u003cbr\u003efacing down the fear of failure, wrestling honestly with identity\u003cbr\u003eand relationship, finding passion, overcoming illusions of power, \u003cbr\u003ediscovering faith, and discerning a sense of mission. Strasburger's\u003cbr\u003ebottom line: it is in serving others that we become the people we're\u003cbr\u003emeant to\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStrasburger, Frank C.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Frank Strasburger has devoted most of his 45-year career as a teacher and priest to young people. After teaching at some of the nation's top independent schools, he was the Episcopal Chaplain at Princeton University for more than a decade. He is cofounder and emeritus president of Princeton in Africa, a leader in providing recent college graduates year-long service opportunities all over Africa. Now retired, Strasburger teaches writing to high school seniors, is a mentor in a program for troubled teens, and serves on a number of nonprofit boards. The father of three grown children, he lives with his wife Carrie on the coast of Maine....","brand":"FriesenPress","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51175090094354,"sku":"9781770975576","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_90fb4cae-02c4-4b5d-a50e-30f237dcd99f.jpg?v=1744284516","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/growing-up-limiting-adolescence-in-a-world-desperate-for-adults-9781770975576","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}