Question: Mr. Smith works in a factory. There he drives a truck. He's tired all the time. When he comes back, he's always busy and doesn't want to do any housework. His wife is a doctor and likes to keep all the things clean. So she has to do all at home. She usually goes to work from Monday to Friday and has to do all on weekends. All her friends know about it and sometimes they come to help her. It's Saturday today. Mrs Smith tells her husband to help her do some housework, but he says he has something to do and goes out early in the morning. He leaves a lot of dirty clothes at home. Mrs Smith doesn't go to work but she doesn't feel well. So she doesn't want to do any housework. After breakfast, Jo, one of her friends, comes to see her when she's sitting on a chair. The girl finds the rooms are dirty and she asks, "Don't you clean your rooms today, Mrs Smith?" "No, I don't."says the doctor. "Why don't you wear your glasses?" "Then I will think the rooms are still clean." 1. Where does the man work?
2. How does he get there?
3. How does he feel most days?
4. What doesn't he enjoy doing?
5. What does Mrs. Smith do for work?
6. What days?
7. So when does that leave time for cleaning?
8. What day is it today?
9. What did Mr. Smith leave a lot of when he left for the day?
10. who came by after the morning meal?
11. Named what?
12. Where was Mrs. Smith when she came by? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. in a factory
2. unknown
3. tired
4. housework
5. she's a doctor
6. Monday to Friday
7. weekends
8. Saturday
9. dirty clothes
10. one of her friends
11. Jo
12. sitting on a chair

Q: Online with Linda Sheila Posted 18-12-18.25 I'm very worried about my friend,Joleen.She's thin but she thinks she is fat.She is always on a diet.She thinks it's necessary for her to lose more weight.She wants to be model.She has photographs of thin models on her bedroom walls.I think she's getting too thin,but if I talk to her about this,she get worried .How can I help her? Simon Posted 18-12-19.00 Sometimes ,I'm concerned about the pressure I get from my frinds.For example,yesterday I was with a group of frinds.We saw a woman lying on the street.She looked very sick.My friends made some jokes about her and laughed,but I wanted to help her.However,my friends told me not to,and I listened to them.Now I feel ashamed.It was cruel of my friends to laugh at her but I wasn't strong enough to say anything. Dear Sheila, You are right to be worried about friend,Joleen.This is a serious problem.She should not continue to be on a diet if she is very thin,she may have an illness called "anorexia".Anorexia people are afraid of eating food.You must advise her to see a doctor soon. If she won't do that,you should talk to her parents or to a teacher. Dear Simon, You feel ashamed because you should have helped the woman.You are right.Your friends were cruel to that woman.We all want our friend to like us.But we don't have to follow our friends all the time.You're a good boy.You should be strong enough to make up your own mind next time.

1. eating food
2. her friend,Joleen
3. She's thin
4. Simon
5. unknown
6. help her
7. advise her to see a doctor soon
8. should talk to her parents or to a teacher

Numbered questions:
1. What are Anorexic people afraid of?
2. Who was Sheila worried about?
3. Is Joleen fat?
4. Who felt ashamed for not helping a woman lying on the street?
5. Who was he with?
6. What did Simon's friends tell him not to do?
7. What was Sheila told she should advise Joleen to do?
8. And what if she wouldn't do that?

input: 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? Return numbered answers in your output.

output:
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.