Anonymous wrote:If your children are at least kindergarten age there's an EduCare program that is an au pair that works fewer hours and gets paid a lower stipend each week.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The issue your Nanny/housekeeper quit is b/c you thought you’d get a whole package for cheap a$$ salary; gotta pay to play!!! Now you’re trying to get an AP (the most common legalized human trafficking)if you can’t afford or don’t want to watch over your own children something’s fundamentally wrong with you. Simply be SAHM and get your game together.
You sound dumb. “Legalized human trafficking”? Human trafficking is illegal and in any event, involves the use of force, fraud, etc. to compel someone to do something against their will. Au pairs are adults who voluntarily sign up for the program and are free to leave at any time.
This poster is an au pair with ZERO comprehension of parenting or adulting. APs like you ruin it for the good ones because excellent families like ours leave the program to avoid nightmares like you.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The issue your Nanny/housekeeper quit is b/c you thought you’d get a whole package for cheap a$$ salary; gotta pay to play!!! Now you’re trying to get an AP (the most common legalized human trafficking)if you can’t afford or don’t want to watch over your own children something’s fundamentally wrong with you. Simply be SAHM and get your game together.
You sound dumb. “Legalized human trafficking”? Human trafficking is illegal and in any event, involves the use of force, fraud, etc. to compel someone to do something against their will. Au pairs are adults who voluntarily sign up for the program and are free to leave at any time.
Anonymous wrote:The issue your Nanny/housekeeper quit is b/c you thought you’d get a whole package for cheap a$$ salary; gotta pay to play!!! Now you’re trying to get an AP (the most common legalized human trafficking)if you can’t afford or don’t want to watch over your own children something’s fundamentally wrong with you. Simply be SAHM and get your game together.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Au pairs are not a monolith, but in my experience I’ve never heard one complain about too few hours. Many Au pairs complain about working over say 30 hours, though.
An Au pair would certainly be able to do the tasks you want, but… are you sure you want to go this route? Au pairs are A LOT of work. Even if you get an independent, self-sufficient, mature Au pair, you will still have to deal with:
Having an adult roommate
Including Au pair in meals, birthdays, holidays, vacations
Providing a car / insurance / cell phone
Learning her food preferences, shopping for her, preparing meals for her
And that’s best case scenario. You will likely have to deal with: homesickness, romantic breakups, car accidents, drinking, etc etc. It’s a lot of work.
I’ve never understood these complaints about having an au pair. Do parents not realize that they will deal with all these things for their own kids? Au pairs are human.
Au pairs are cheap child care and, for a lot of lot of lazy Americans, cheap maids. They have a late teens/early 20's young women and think they will be thinking like someone in their 40's!
Except it’s not actually cheap when you factor it all in. The advantage of an au pair is they can work a split schedule and most of them don’t work 45 hours per week. Nannie’s don’t want a split schedule sand they understandably want max hours.