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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a generation thing. The AP generation is phone and electronic centric. My au pairs have a phone, an iPad, a computer, dreaded, etc... all the stuff. It's going to be hard to get her off it all the time. I provide a phone and my au pair doesn't use it. She uses her phone from home and only uses my provided phone as a hotspot or to call occasionally. It's frustrating. Why am I providing one?.... I have a Disney Circle at home for my kids and they are older, so I don't care as much as when my kids were younger and needed tighter supervision, but she is still on it constantly. If I needed her to cool it, I could control her access via the Circle, but they have ways around it (hotspots, vpn, etc). God knows, my son has tried. If it bothers you, have a sit down and discuss appropriate use and timing. If she doesn't follow it or slips, have one more convo...then bring in LCC. MAKE SURE she knows you are serious. But I guarantee that she will still use it or will go around it. Sneak it. In 9 au pairs, I have yet to have one not addicted to tech/phones/texting. Just don't tell her how you know, or she will turnoff her last seen status, and that is invaluable.[/quote] I didn't know she could turn that off!!! Yikes, thanks for the heads up. Thank you also for telling me your experience. We will have another conversation with her that our rules are no phones when on duty, and hope that helps. If not, then we bring in the local coordinator. I'm hoping that some of this is that she has only been here a very short time and her entire social circle is back home and she's still adjusting to being without them. I know she will always use her phone, but it needs to be much less than now. Thanks again for the replies everyone...[/quote]
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