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[quote=Anonymous]If you have a system for the toys where everything has a place, it's reasonable to expect your au pair to learn that system and follow it. I think organizing from scratch is much more difficult and depends on a person's personality, to some extent (and anyway, might well not match what you want). So if you have places for all those toys, then make sure they're clearly labeled and tell her where each thing goes (legos go in this bin upstairs, stuffed animals go in that bin in the playroom), and explicitly spell out that during clean-up, toys from anywhere in the house need to be returned to the proper place. Be explicit, don't just say 'clean up better.' But if you have things that don't have their own place, I don't think it's likely that you'll luck into having an au pair who can come up with a coherent organizational system that matches how you'd want it done.[/quote]
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