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[quote=Anonymous]We had five au pairs, each of them were fully independently responsible for getting our kids to and from school, driving etc. We never had an issue with any of our au pairs. We started having au pairs when our kids were 3&4 and had au pairs consistently for eight years. Our au pairs helped with homework, taking kids to the pool during the summer, played games with our kids, helped them with laundry, snacks, etc. Our kids loved our au pairs and our au pairs loved our kids. What you need would have been well within the capabilities of any of our au pairs. That said, we always practiced driving with our au pairs before we sent them on their own. Only one au pair had an accident in those 8 years (someone else ran a red light and hit our au pair, totaling our car in the process). We did see a few speed camera tickets but usually not more than one per au pair. We also met a lot of au pairs through our au pairs and my uniform experience was that I liked all of the girls we met. Some had terrible host families, but my other friends who were sane and kind to their au pairs also uniformly had good experiences with au pairs for their families. I do agree our au pairs from Brazil required more hands on driving guidance than our au pairs from Eastern Europe. I always thought our South African au pair was a bit aggressive on the gas, but not enough to give me anxiety when the kids were riding with her.[/quote]
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