Growing Up

Limiting Adolescence in a World Desperate for Adults by Frank C. Strasburger

How do we become adults? Is it by moving out of our parents’
house? Earning an independent income? Getting married? Having
children? Buying a house? Those are the benchmarks most of us
use, but Growing Up suggests that maturity is more about qualities
of character. Through the poignant stories of nearly half a century
working with young people as a teacher, school administrator,
high school and college chaplain, parish priest, and father of three,
Frank Strasburger shares the encouraging news that the pace and
power with which we become adults is largely within our control.
Chapter by chapter, he unfolds the real process of growing up:
facing down the fear of failure, wrestling honestly with identity
and relationship, finding passion, overcoming illusions of power,
discovering faith, and discerning a sense of mission. Strasburger’s
bottom line: it is in serving others that we become the people we’re
meant to be.

Frank C. Strasburger

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.