Last week, the Capitol Crud (the flu that's been making the rounds under the dome) kept Rep. Lynne DiSanto (R-35/Rapid City) from attending Thursday's House Health and Human Services hearing and casting the deciding vote on House Bill 1166, this…
Posts tagged as “parenting”
Teachers around South Dakota commonly have their kids—not their students, but the children in their family—come to their classrooms after school. Like several other teachers, I did it occasionally in Spearfish. If my wife was away, our little one would…
South Dakota's 2006 gay-marriage ban has coincided with a drop our marriage rate and an increase in the rate of births to unwed moms. Nationally, the recession has coincided with another shift in family values. Pew Research finds that moms…
Full disclosure: I'm glued to my computer screen right now. My wife is on her laptop My six-year-old is running back and forth across the apartment with a large scarf—I'm a bird! ...Now I have a cape!" No thunk yet,…
My wife has helped me realize that women exist to make sure men don't kill the offspring by doing stupid things like chasing buffalo and riding motorcycle. My confidence in women was shaken just a bit by a woman at…
Speaking of family values, Jezebel's Erin Gloria Ryan points us toward a new report from the National Partnership for Women and Families that finds family-values voters tend not to put their preaching into policy practice. Overall, we Americans don't stack…
This guest column comes from Erika Lapour, a Sioux Falls parent who has issues with the increased standardized testing that will be an integral part of the education reforms proposed and signed into law by Governor Dennis Daugaard in House…