Thinking of hiring Au Pair but worried because husband works from home

I would also be more worried about her work load than the sexual predatory possibilities.

Find an ap with heavy baby experience. Go with APIA, APC or EurAuPair... agencies that have speciality au pairs with more experience. Also...an agency called Pro Au Pair has more expensive ones that are guaranteed to have more baby experience. If I had a newborn and toddler...I would highly consider them. But I have school aged kids and that would be overkill for me.

Don't let the nannies on here discourage you. Many of my other host mom friends have been successful with au pairs and your setup. Interview and screen carefully.

report

12/30/2013 18:43

Subject: Thinking of hiring Au Pair but worried because husband works from home

quote

Anonymous

So you commit to a foreign babysitter who you never really meet, to be responsible for a toddler and an infant?

report

12/30/2013 19:03

Subject: Thinking of hiring Au Pair but worried because husband works from home

quote

Anonymous

get a male au pair

report

12/30/2013 19:27

Subject: Thinking of hiring Au Pair but worried because husband works from home

quote

Anonymous

Anonymous wrote:I travel for work overnight two nights per week and it's never occurred to me to worry about our au pair and my husband. Seriously. And we have had beautiful APs and seven of them.
DH is good looking but he's also 43. Our APs are interested in 20-something year olds, certainly not in someone who is the age of their fathers. Though honestly, I had no worries when DH was 30 either....

+1

My DH is good looking, funny and smart. But, so am I. Our APs have been lovely but they are adolescents. I'm not worried. If I had to be, I'd be thinking about a new husband, not changing childcare...

report

12/31/2013 08:13

Subject: Thinking of hiring Au Pair but worried because husband works from home

quote

Anonymous

Anonymous wrote:get a male au pair

We have one now and believe me, it is payback for DS and all our beautiful female APs in the last because he spends four hours a day in the gym and is completely cut. Otoh, this doesn't mean I have even the slightest interest in him except as an excellent care provided for my children and an excellent housemate to DH and me. I can admire his abs without wanting to sleep with him, just as my husband could have admired our female APs all those years without having wanted to sleep with them.

report

12/31/2013 08:27

Subject: Thinking of hiring Au Pair but worried because husband works from home

quote

Anonymous

No one in her right mind hires an adolescent of either gender to be responsible for a toddler AND an infant, alone all day.

Maybe hubby can be on call to pitch in?

report

12/31/2013 10:30

Subject: Thinking of hiring Au Pair but worried because husband works from home

quote

Anonymous

Anonymous wrote:No one in her right mind hires an adolescent of either gender to be responsible for a toddler AND an infant, alone all day.

Maybe hubby can be on call to pitch in?

"Adolescence describes the teenage years between 13 and 19 and can be considered the transitional stage from childhood to adulthood. However, the physical and psychological changes that occur in adolescence can start earlier, during the preteen or "tween" years (ages 9-12)"

AFAIK, most APs are beyond adolescence.

report

12/31/2013 10:34

Subject: Thinking of hiring Au Pair but worried because husband works from home

quote

Anonymous

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one in her right mind hires an adolescent of either gender to be responsible for a toddler AND an infant, alone all day.

Maybe hubby can be on call to pitch in?

"Adolescence describes the teenage years between 13 and 19 and can be considered the transitional stage from childhood to adulthood. However, the physical and psychological changes that occur in adolescence can start earlier, during the preteen or "tween" years (ages 9-12)"

AFAIK, most APs are beyond adolescence.

Pediatricians are still tending to 21 years olds, since they've determined that the brain doesn't "mature" until about 26.