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Lansing Street (Just Northeast of Lynn Lane & Kenosha) • (918) 258-9990 SHORTS 6-8 NEWS & NOTES tulsakids Events, happenings, news & readers’ letters FEATURES 26-27 COVER STORY Meet KMOD’s Lynn Hernandez: contents 9.14 Rock ‘n’ Roll DJ and Dad by Brandon Schmitz Volume XXVII, Number 9 www.tulsakids.com 28-29 PARENTING Dr. Fay Talks About Love and Logic and Kids by Nikki Cyter Sack 30 CULTURE Meet KMOD’s Lynn Hernandez: Say Hello to the Helmerich Center for American Research by Bria Bolton Moore Rock ‘n’ Roll DJ and Dad 34-35 KID CULTURE Justin Roberts Trio Brings Family Fun to Guthrie Green by Julie Wenger Watson 36-37 COMMUNITY Neighborhood Networking: Making Ties Through Social Media by Sarai Burris 40-41 PARENTS LIKE YOU Tulsa Police Officer Reflects on Job and Family by Betty Casey 42-43 DINING OUT Restaurant Week: A Great Reason To Eat Out by Betty Casey IN EVERY ISSUE 12-13 STAGES: Babies & Toddlers Screen Separation Anxiety by Kiley Roberson BY BRANDON SCHMITZ 26-27 14 STAGES: School Age Helping Your Children Understand Themselves by Gina Conroy 16 STAGES: Tweens & Teens Smoothing the Path from Middle School to High School by Julie Wenger Watson 20 EDUCATION Parents Can Build a Positive Bridge Between Home and School by Karen Moult 22-23 FUTURE FOODIES Come Play a Part at “A Peace of Art” by Ayschia Kuykendall 32-33 GET COOKING Tulsa Police Officer Reflects on Neighborhood Networking: Presentation is Everything 40-41 Job and Family 36-37 Making Ties Through Social Media by Natalie Mikles 44-45 FROM THE HIP The Hip Mom Meets Some Crafty Women by Jill VanTrease 46 SPORTS & FITNESS Join the Barre by Jennifer Luitwieler 47-53 OUT AND ABOUT: CALENDAR OF EVENTS compiled by Abby Rodgers 55 I’M A TULSA KID: Chad Rhodes by Karen Moult 56 TULSAKIDS ONLINE Justin Roberts Trio Brings Be a Part of Our Online Community! Restaurant Week: A Great by Abby Rodgers, web and 34-35 Family Fun to Guthrie Green 42-43 Reason To Eat Out social media editor WWW.TULSAKIDS.COM TULSA KIDS SEPTEMBER 2014 5 editor’s note on the web tulsa kids FOR PARENTS. FOR FAMILIES. FOR LIFE. www.tulsakids.com MeetYour Neighbors! PUBLISHER :CHARLES FOSHEE Find us on the world wide web. EDITOR : BETTY CASEY Sometimes things fall together in unex - TulsaKids’ content, contests, WEB EDITOR : ABBY RODGERS pected ways. As I was putting together blogs and web exclusives every ADVERTISING SALES : CAROLINE SHAW this issue of TulsaKids, I realized that I had month. KATHY THOMPSON assigned an unprecedented number of CATHY WILKIE Question and Answer profiles and inter - Parent Blogs PRODUCTION : DESKTOP DESIGN INC . views. Perhaps I was suffering from the Join our Parent Community COVER PHOTO : LESLIE HOYT PHOTOGRAPHY summer vapors. Okay, that word just popped out of my head, so naturally, I and read some things you’ll had to google it because I’m not really sure what it means. It’s either a DISTRIBUTION : JOAN PEREZ British new wave and power pop band, which I love, by the way, or a 19 th never see in print. Keep the CONTRIBUTING WRITERS : century term, applied to women, meaning to be emotionally overcome. If conversation going. Nikki Cyter Sack you’re as old as me, you may remember the Vapors’ hit song“Turning Julie Wenger Watson The E-dition of TulsaKids Sarai Burris Japanese. ”I love that song, but I digress. 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BRANDON SCHMITZ left in an increasingly high-tech industry, he gives back to the community in a variety of ways and, like many of you reading this right now, is a parent facebook/tulsakids to two young children. Read his interview and you may get to know Lynn Twitter in new and unexpected ways beyond his rock radio personality . Follow our tweets! The YWCA has a new CEO, a Tulsa native who moved away, and is now twitter.com/tulsakids back to lead the YWCA as it celebrates its centennial year. Learn more about her in this issue. Talk to Me Another person to know is a local police officer and his family. While we I want to know what you think. hear about some bad apples in the profession, the majority of officers are E-mail me at: TK PUBLISHING inc. just doing their job protecting our families. Sept. 6 is National Thank a Po - [email protected] lice Officer Day, so you might want to take advantage of that. 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