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...parents often give the go-ahead. It was Kennedy's stepmother who first took her to a tanning salon four years ago, and her aunt regularly accompanies her now. Likewise, her friend Sabrina Hendershot, 16, irradiates herself indoors a dozen times a year--with her mother's permission. "My mom doesn't really like that I do it," she says, "but she says it's O.K. as long as it's not all the time...
...booster--husband and former President Bill--will speak to Iowa Democrats in October. Then there's the hopeful who is pretty much always there--Democrat Tom Vilsack is Iowa's Governor. But all candidates should keep in mind that a politician doesn't win by Iowa alone--Gephardt, with Mom's help, won there in '88 and went on to lose the Democratic nomination...
...mothers usually claim it's the father's fault. When men walk into a room, the women say, they are not naturally observant of what needs to be done. Rather, they wait to be told. "Why do I always have to point it out to him?" complained one frustrated mom. "Sometimes it's just easier to do it myself...
...confirms his wife's fear that he's not reliable. Unwittingly, men are hinting to their spouses that she's ultimately responsible, while he's along for the ride. The social culture constantly reinforces this idea. When their daughter shows up at school with tangled hair, the other moms don't blame Dad, who failed to comb it out - they blame Mom, for assigning a chore to Dad he couldn't handle...
...Cold turkey also helps. Several moms learned to relax after they took a business trip and recognized that nothing went wrong in their absence. Other moms said that having a second child cured them of the luxury of being overly anxious. And the conflict softens as children learn to feed and dress themselves and sit on the toilet. The demands of parenting are no longer the specialty of Mom...