The Website
Notice, January 1, 2011:
Hey guys! With the coming of the new year, in the interests of complete honesty, I wanted to let you all know that I am no longer a teenager. I was when I created this website, when I wrote pretty well everything you see today, but time passes and now I'm 20. Like many kids in unhappy and divorced families, I grew up quickly and I've felt like I was about 30 since I was probably 13, so I don't think turning 20 will make that much of a difference. I'll keep working on the website, adding pages when they seem needed, but I just wanted to be upfront about my age. If you see a page that says "we teens" or something along those lines, well, that's because I wrote it when I was still a teenager. Thanks for all your support! :)
Hey guys! With the coming of the new year, in the interests of complete honesty, I wanted to let you all know that I am no longer a teenager. I was when I created this website, when I wrote pretty well everything you see today, but time passes and now I'm 20. Like many kids in unhappy and divorced families, I grew up quickly and I've felt like I was about 30 since I was probably 13, so I don't think turning 20 will make that much of a difference. I'll keep working on the website, adding pages when they seem needed, but I just wanted to be upfront about my age. If you see a page that says "we teens" or something along those lines, well, that's because I wrote it when I was still a teenager. Thanks for all your support! :)
I decided to create this website when my own parents divorced. I had gone looking for advice on how to deal with divorce, but all I found were websites aimed at small children or websites meant for parents. For teenagers like us, advice for younger kids is of little use and advice for parents is even less helpful. So I made this website, using not only my own experiences, but also those of other teens to bring together the advice featured here.
Making the website has been a bit of an adventure. I didn't know how to make a webpage before now, so learning to make this website has been a learning curve. There have also been errors made along the way that I quickly learned from. My first mistake was the original name of the website - Divorce for Teens. It sounded nice at first...that is, until I realized that it sounded like I was helping teenagers get divorces! Not my intention. Anyways, I'm still learning, and the website has grown a lot since I first published it back in April 2010. And I'm sure it will continue to grow and help other teens in the future. :)
I would like to thank Whitney, Cassidy, Justin, and others for their contributions to the website back when it was only a high schooler's dream. None of us are professionals, nor do we claim to be. What we are is a group of teenagers who have been where you are now. We understand it, and we're giving you the advice that we wish we'd known when our own parents were divorcing.
I'd also like to thank the readers for giving me feedback - you guys are great! I'm still a student, working on this website in my elusive free time and making absolutely no money out of this, so please continue to forgive and point out any errors you may find.
This website was a life-changing experience for me, enabling me to grow and heal myself while helping others. It is hugely empowering to be able to reach out and help others like you; to know that even though your experience was difficult, the pain doesn't have to be for nothing because having gone through it has enabled me to help others. The experience has inspired me to make websites to help even more people, such websites to help students on the autism spectrum transition to college and help others understand autism (both issues that also impact my family). Without continued feedback from readers like you, I never would have had the empowerment to continue growing this website from the few articles it originally hosted, let alone have had the confidence to make further websites. Thank you for believing in me.
It is with this that I dedicate this website to every child of divorce who feels powerless in a situation that's beyond their control. You're more powerful than you think, and you have the power to not only get through this, but grow even stronger from the experience.
Good luck on your journey.
- Creigh
Making the website has been a bit of an adventure. I didn't know how to make a webpage before now, so learning to make this website has been a learning curve. There have also been errors made along the way that I quickly learned from. My first mistake was the original name of the website - Divorce for Teens. It sounded nice at first...that is, until I realized that it sounded like I was helping teenagers get divorces! Not my intention. Anyways, I'm still learning, and the website has grown a lot since I first published it back in April 2010. And I'm sure it will continue to grow and help other teens in the future. :)
I would like to thank Whitney, Cassidy, Justin, and others for their contributions to the website back when it was only a high schooler's dream. None of us are professionals, nor do we claim to be. What we are is a group of teenagers who have been where you are now. We understand it, and we're giving you the advice that we wish we'd known when our own parents were divorcing.
I'd also like to thank the readers for giving me feedback - you guys are great! I'm still a student, working on this website in my elusive free time and making absolutely no money out of this, so please continue to forgive and point out any errors you may find.
This website was a life-changing experience for me, enabling me to grow and heal myself while helping others. It is hugely empowering to be able to reach out and help others like you; to know that even though your experience was difficult, the pain doesn't have to be for nothing because having gone through it has enabled me to help others. The experience has inspired me to make websites to help even more people, such websites to help students on the autism spectrum transition to college and help others understand autism (both issues that also impact my family). Without continued feedback from readers like you, I never would have had the empowerment to continue growing this website from the few articles it originally hosted, let alone have had the confidence to make further websites. Thank you for believing in me.
It is with this that I dedicate this website to every child of divorce who feels powerless in a situation that's beyond their control. You're more powerful than you think, and you have the power to not only get through this, but grow even stronger from the experience.
Good luck on your journey.
- Creigh