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One day in my class, Maria shared her feelings about money, "Money worries me. I think I want to live without money because I hate it. I HATE MONEY." We were all touched by Maria's words as they reminded us of the spiritual burdens that money managing can bring to us. After class I offered to help Maria deal with her financial problems. She hesitated to accept my offer, and I could see from the expression on her face that she was afraid of what it might involve. I quickly promised her that I wouldn't make her do more than she was able to. I told her frankly that I didn't enjoy managing my money any more than she did hers and wouldn't burden her with guilt, judgments, or impossible tasks. All I would ask her to do was to let me help her look at her fears and try to make some sense of them.

Maria still resisted my offer, and I can remember the excuses she gave me as they were the repeated complaints I had heard from so many people. "I'11 never understand money," she said. "My facts are meaningless." "I don't deserve to have money." "I never have enough," "I have too little to manage." "My financial position isn't worth looking at." and the most _ one of all, "I just can't do it."

Going home that day, I couldn't get Maria out of my mind: Her attitude conveyed the same negativity and fear that I believed annoyed many people. I was sure it was this attitude that prevented people from managing their money effectively. My counseling has taught me that these anxieties are inseparably connected to our self-doubts and fear for survival. Many of us are terrified of handling our money because we don't believe we can do it well, and to do it wrong would put our very existence at risk.

On a deeper level we know that money is not the source of life, but sense of worth drives us to act as if it were. It locks us up in self-doubts and prevents us from tapping into the true source of our management power, our spirit.
1. What does Maria hate?

Numbered answers:
1. money

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(CNN) -- The stepmother of a missing 10-year-old North Carolina girl joined police as they searched for the girl's body Monday, the same day the girl's father landed behind bars.

Elisa Baker, who police said last week admitted to writing a fake ransom note a day after the girl's disappearance was reported, was taken by police to a search site near a home she lived in three years ago, according to CNN affiliate WSOC.

Earlier on Monday, shortly after 3 a.m., Adam Troy Baker was arrested in Catawba County on eight charges, including five counts of submitting worthless checks and three counts of failing to appear in court.

Police earlier acknowledged that Adam Baker faced bad-check charges, which are unrelated to the disappearance of his daughter, Zahra Clare Baker. But they did not initially arrest him, as he had been helping authorities in their search.

Zahra was reported missing October 9. But no one other than a family member has reported seeing her since September 25, when a woman saw her at a furniture store.

Elisa Baker was arrested on October 10, initially on several charged unrelated charges, including writing worthless checks. Last week, she was additionally charged with obstruction of justice -- a felony -- after leaving the ransom note at the family's home.

Authorities on Friday ended an unsuccessful search at a North Carolina landfill for a mattress connected to Zahra's disappearance, said police in Hickory.

The adolescent's disappearance is being investigated as a homicide, police said. Local, state and federal authorities, along with cadaver dogs, are continuing to search Caldwell County and thereabouts for signs of Zahra.
1. Who went missing?
2. What was her name?
3. How old was she?
4. When was her disappearance reported?
5. Where was she last seen?
6. When was that?
7. Who was arrested on October 10th?
8. On what charge?
9. What was she charged with the week before?
10. For what specific action?
11. Is obstruction of justice a felony?
12. Who else was arrested for writing bad checks?
13. How many counts did he receive for that action?
14. What other crime did he commit?
15. How many counts did he get for that?
16. Why wasn't he originally arrested?
17. What did police search for at the landfill?
18. Did they find it?

Numbered answers:
1. a girl
2. Zahra
3. 10
4. October 9
5. furniture store
6. September 25
7. Elisa Baker
8. writing worthless checks
9. obstruction of justice
10. leaving a ransom note
11. felony
12. Adam Baker
13. five
14. failing to appear in court
15. three
16. he had been helping authorities in their search
17. a mattress
18. No

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Psychiatrists who work with older parents say that maturity can be an advantage in child raising--older parents are more thoughtful, use less physical discipline and spend more time with their children. But raising kids takes money and energy. Many older parents find themselves balancing their limited financial resources, decreasing energy and failing health against the growing demands of an active child. Dying and leaving young children is probably the older parents' biggest, and often unspoken fear. "Having late-life children often means parents, particularly fathers, end up retiring much later. For many, retirement becomes an unobtainable dream." says Brandy Gabrielle, an economics professor.

Henry Metcalf, a 54-year-old journalist, knows it takes money to raise kids. But he's also worried that his energy will give out first. Sure, he can still ride bikes with his athletic fifth grader, but he's learned that young at heart doesn't mean young. Lately he's been taking afternoon naps to keep up his energy. "My body is aging," says Metcalf. "You can't get away from that."

Often, older parents hear the ticking of another kind of biological clock. Therapists who work with middle-aged and older parents say fears about aging are nothing to laugh at. "They worry they'll be mistaken for grandparents, or that they'll need help getting up out of those little chairs in nursery school," says Joann Gals, a New York psychologist. But at the core of those little fears there is often a much bigger one: "that they won't be alive long enough to support and protect their children," she says.

Many late-life parents, though, say their children came at just the right time. After marrying late and undergoing years of pregnancy treatment, Marilyn Nolen and her husband, Randy, had twins. "We both wanted children," says Marilyn, who was 55 when she gave birth. The twins have given the couple what they desired for years -- a sense of family. Kids of older dads are often smarter, happier and more sociable because their fathers are more involved in their lives. "The dads are older, more mature," says Dr. Silber, "and more ready to focus on parenting."
1. How old is Henry Metcalf?
2. What's he do for a living?
3. What's it take to raise kids?
4. Instead of worrying about cash, though, what's he worried about giving out first?
5. What's he like to ride with his fifth grader?
6. Is his kid a couch potato?
7. What's Henry take to keep his energy up?
8. What's the name of Marilyn Nolan's husband?
9. How many kids do they have?
10. How old was Marilyn when she had them?
11. Did they want the kids?
12. What kind of sense did it give them?
13. When older dudes have kids, what's one of the things the kids tend to be?
14. Are kids with older dudes for fathers smarter?
15. Are they happier or sadder than other tykes?
16. Do their fathers get more involved in their lives?
17. What's an older's parent biggest, and often unspoken terror?
18. What turns into an unobtainable dream?
19. Who said this?
20. What's she do for a living?
Numbered answers:
1. 54
2. journalist
3. money
4. energy
5. bikes
6. no
7. afternoon naps
8. randy
9. Two
10. 55
11. yes
12. of family.
13. more ready to focus on parenting
14. yes
15. happier
16. yes
17. Dying and leaving young children
18. retirement
19. Brandy Gabrielle
20. an economics professor.