Mormon Au Pairs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a feeling this post was just put up here to start drama. I really hope no one feeds into your craziness. Not all Mormons live in Utah and we are just like any other people in the world. People please educate yourself on different religions so you don't ask such dumb questions.

OP here. Your feeling is off. Don’t turn this into something it’s not. THESE SPECIFIC MORMONS LIVE IN UTAH - I didn’t say they all did. Thank you for your irrelevant post, this has nothing to do with religion.

OP, NP here. I think the way you worded your post sounded like all Mormons come from Utah and they hard working and happy. people read what you write, not what you meant to write. if you elaborated more and wrote that you spoke to a woman who hired a Mormon AP (which is strange because AP are foreigners) from Utah through an agency and were wondering if anybody else had had experience with that agency, you would have gotten the answers you wanted. And your question, at least the way you worded it, and thus what we read, had everything to do with religion since the characteristic of the AP you mentioned is that they are Mormons, which, in case you do not know, it is a religion (the title of your thread is "Mormon Au Pairs", so I can't really see how you can say that it nothing to do with religion).

[Anonymous]

21:05 Thank you for putting into words what I could not. I tried and apparently failed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a feeling this post was just put up here to start drama. I really hope no one feeds into your craziness. Not all Mormons live in Utah and we are just like any other people in the world. People please educate yourself on different religions so you don't ask such dumb questions.

OP here. Your feeling is off. Don’t turn this into something it’s not. THESE SPECIFIC MORMONS LIVE IN UTAH - I didn’t say they all did. Thank you for your irrelevant post, this has nothing to do with religion.

OP, NP here. I think the way you worded your post sounded like all Mormons come from Utah and they hard working and happy. people read what you write, not what you meant to write. if you elaborated more and wrote that you spoke to a woman who hired a Mormon AP (which is strange because AP are foreigners) from Utah through an agency and were wondering if anybody else had had experience with that agency, you would have gotten the answers you wanted. And your question, at least the way you worded it, and thus what we read, had everything to do with religion since the characteristic of the AP you mentioned is that they are Mormons, which, in case you do not know, it is a religion (the title of your thread is "Mormon Au Pairs", so I can't really see how you can say that it nothing to do with religion).

Yea, but who cares? Why are you trying to school the OP? She had a good question and wasnt asking for a lesson in writing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a feeling this post was just put up here to start drama. I really hope no one feeds into your craziness. Not all Mormons live in Utah and we are just like any other people in the world. People please educate yourself on different religions so you don't ask such dumb questions.

OP here. Your feeling is off. Don’t turn this into something it’s not. THESE SPECIFIC MORMONS LIVE IN UTAH - I didn’t say they all did. Thank you for your irrelevant post, this has nothing to do with religion.

OP, NP here. I think the way you worded your post sounded like all Mormons come from Utah and they hard working and happy. people read what you write, not what you meant to write. if you elaborated more and wrote that you spoke to a woman who hired a Mormon AP (which is strange because AP are foreigners) from Utah through an agency and were wondering if anybody else had had experience with that agency, you would have gotten the answers you wanted. And your question, at least the way you worded it, and thus what we read, had everything to do with religion since the characteristic of the AP you mentioned is that they are Mormons, which, in case you do not know, it is a religion (the title of your thread is "Mormon Au Pairs", so I can't really see how you can say that it nothing to do with religion).

Yea, but who cares? Why are you trying to school the OP? She had a good question and wasnt asking for a lesson in writing.

OP did not have a good question, she asked an offensive question. PPs were attempting to explain WHY they responded the way they did so she could improve her phrasing next time and hopefully offend fewer people.

[Anonymous]

Adult here. OP asked a perfectlly valid question.

Mormon nannies can be great - we've had two. The pluses are obvious - clean living and domestically oriented. However, both women have been somewhat subtlety judgemental of the fact that I drink coffee and work full time. It is funny more than anything once I got used to it, but it bugs me that they think of themselves as more "righteous" than my family. Whatever - my kids have excellent care and if I have to put up with a goody-goody to get it, so be it.

Greataupair is a good website to look on. If you use care.com, search by using Utah/Idaho schools. Avoid Your Child's nanny all costs. They used to be great, but were terriable when I used them more recently.

[Anonymous]

18:22 Not all Mormon nannies are goody goodies. It is unfortunate that they acted as if they were more "righteous." We are not taught to behave in such a way. We are taught to be accepting of everyone and all other religions. Please don't generalize it though and make it seem as if all Mormon nannies are good goodies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:18:22 Not all Mormon nannies are goody goodies. It is unfortunate that they acted as if they were more "righteous." We are not taught to behave in such a way. We are taught to be accepting of everyone and all other religions. Please don't generalize it though and make it seem as if all Mormon nannies are good goodies.

They certainly aren't all like that--we are still getting sex toy/ porn ads in the mail in the name of a former Mormon nanny (who was with us briefly in 2011). And also discovering new lies she told us, our kids, and our neighbors. . .

Like any stereotypes with nannies, it can be useful to a point, but you absolutely have to look at the individual.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:18:22 Not all Mormon nannies are goody goodies. It is unfortunate that they acted as if they were more "righteous." We are not taught to behave in such a way. We are taught to be accepting of everyone and all other religions. Please don't generalize it though and make it seem as if all Mormon nannies are good goodies.

Former Mormon here. Mormons ARE taught to view themselves as more righteous!!!! Anyone who says otherwise needs to do some deep soul searching. We are taught that we belong to the "one and only true church" and that all other churches are false. We are taught to focus our friendships and dating almost exclusively on other Mormons. The pressure to invite friends to church and look for converts is intense. Even the language is repulsive - the world is devibded into Members, Non-Members and Inactives.

[Anonymous]

13:57 I am sorry that the mormon church (ward) you went to made it seem like you should act more righteous. I am mormon and while I have been taught that I belong to the "one and only true church" I don't walk around acting righteous. I don't act better than other people and I haven't been told that I should only be friends with other Mormons. I am friends with everyone and I do not look down on a family or others because they do not believe the same things I do. They are free to believe what they want. Maybe I'm just a bad Mormon then but I like to think that I am doing the right thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:13:57 I am sorry that the mormon church (ward) you went to made it seem like you should act more righteous. I am mormon and while I have been taught that I belong to the "one and only true church" I don't walk around acting righteous. I don't act better than other people and I haven't been told that I should only be friends with other Mormons. I am friends with everyone and I do not look down on a family or others because they do not believe the same things I do. They are free to believe what they want. Maybe I'm just a bad Mormon then but I like to think that I am doing the right thing.

Bad Mormon = good person. Don't worry PP, you sound like one of the good ones

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:18:22 Not all Mormon nannies are goody goodies. It is unfortunate that they acted as if they were more "righteous." We are not taught to behave in such a way. We are taught to be accepting of everyone and all other religions. Please don't generalize it though and make it seem as if all Mormon nannies are good goodies. [/


Ha ha ha ha!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:13:57 I am sorry that the mormon church (ward) you went to made it seem like you should act more righteous. I am mormon and while I have been taught that I belong to the "one and only true church" I don't walk around acting righteous. I don't act better than other people and I haven't been told that I should only be friends with other Mormons. I am friends with everyone and I do not look down on a family or others because they do not believe the same things I do. They are free to believe what they want. Maybe I'm just a bad Mormon then but I like to think that I am doing the right thing.

Bad Mormon = good person. Don't worry PP, you sound like one of the good ones

+1

[Anonymous]

Hi, I'm based in London, UK and looking for an LDS LAu pair. Please contact me if you know someone who does international placements. [e-mail]

[Anonymous]

We've had great luck with girls from Utah and Arizona (happened to be Mormon)...but I'd go to care.com and find them yourself.
There are agencies that do this for you, but it ends up costing $3000 for that "service".
YCN (Your Child's Nanny) is a complete joke, run by a couple women working part time in Oregon and Hawaii. Read customer feedback online before signing up with any of them. Especially Yelp...which was so bad, they took it down.

[Anonymous]

My AP is Mormon. We weren't specifically looking for that and matched through Cultural Care.