Note from the Publisher
Minette Riordan, Ph.D.
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I will be honest, over the past year I have struggled to keep this magazine going. I struggled with whether to continue with North Texas Kids, not for business reasons but personal ones. My own kids are getting older and busier, my life was getting older and busier, too. It wasn't fun anymore and I was having more fun doing other things like teaching and coaching. My husband and I worked all year long to find our place together again, to rekindle our relationship, restructure our lives and to get fit. Maybe you read the articles and followed our progress this year. We successfully completed the Dallas White Rock Half Marathon in December, wahoo! I lost my way this year. I took some time off this summer to find it again and to think hard about what I want for my life and my family and for this business
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Alex Ruiz is 9 years old and a third grader at Dodd Elementary School in Wylie. He enjoys playing football and riding his bike. He
recently won a Sportsmanship Medal from his football team. His interest in art started as soon as he could hold a crayon.
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North Texas Kids loves kids’ art. Feel free to send us your child’s Masterpiece. We are looking for covers that are unique, bright and colorful. Each child that appears on our cover receives $50.00 along with his/her picture and story in the paper. Submissions may be digital or print. Email pictures to info@
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that I have poured my heart and soul into for the past 8 years. I cannot thank Jenny and Betty, our coaches at Living Well Dallas enough. They were a big part of helping us get clear, get healthy and move forward with our lives in the direction we wanted to go.
I started this business when my
kids were 3 and 1. I wanted to have a job where I could create my own schedule, be with my kids more, not have them in day care of after school care full time, be a PTA mom and volunteer. My husband and I were committed to flexibility! Over the 8 years as my business grew, the structure changed and I worked harder with less flexibility. I watched staff come and go, some working as hard as I did and caring as much as I did, others that moved on to new and bigger adventures. But I am the captain of this boat and if I lose my
way, then so does my staff. It's time for me to take the helm again and to do that, I have to make it fun again. I had this idea of what I thought my business had to be, was supposed to be, could be but I lost sight of the pieces that I loved most about building a business: networking, talking to people and creating lots of amazing content full of great resources, interesting information and fun events for families. So, it is with both sadness and trepidation that I say this issue is the last issue of North Texas Kids that I will print. Now, I am a huge reader, I love magazines, books, I love print! At the same time, the print piece is what's causing all the stress right now and stopping me from being as creative as I want to with this great product that is North Texas Kids. So here's our plan and we hope you will join us! We are turning North Texas Kids into an online, interactive magazine. It will not be a blog or just a website, we've got both of those already. It will still be a magazine format that you can read online, download and print out or we'll even mail you a copy on a CD. What's new and exciting is that every issue will include video embedded in the actual magazine, every ad and web address will be
Continued on page 6. Publisher/Editor
Minette Riordan
minette@northtexaskids.com
Web/Media Designer Brad Dobson
bdobson@northtexaskids.com
Editor of Sports Scoop Mike Kravik
mike@northtexaskids.com
Office/Sales Manager Heidi Schlabs
heidi@northtexaskids.com
Account Executives Cindy Johnson Gail Kirkland Nancy Luttinger
Creative Dir. /Designer Brittany Allen 2nd Story Design
brittany@2ndstorydesign.com
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North Texas Kids is a Division of Scissortail Publishing LLC. North Texas Kids is published 12 times a year. Copyright 2010 by North Texas Kids©. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without written permission prohibited. North Texas Kids encourages your submission of articles, children’s artwork, photographs and ideas. We reserve the right to edit all submitted material. All submissions will be considered for publication. Recommended article length is 500 to 800 words. Viewpoints of the articles are not necessarily the viewpoints of North Texas Kids. Materials will not be returned. Advertising is accepted at the discretion of the Publisher. Advertisers assume all liability for the content of their printed advertisements and agree to indemnify North Texas Kids and its publisher for any and all claims and expenses arising therefrom.
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