COVID

[Anonymous]

Our au pair tested positive for COVID after spending several nights out with friends. Obviously she is quarantined to her room for the next week and I am stuck taking leave to cover child care. We are a very cautious family and haven’t had to deal with this yet. How are other families handling this situation?

[Anonymous]

I’m sorry. How incredibly frustrating to be cautious and careful, only to have her decision to party interfere with your work, life, etc. And potentially threaten your health and that of your kids. Ugh.

With a nanny/babysitter, at least you presumably wouldn’t be paying them for these days, so that would be a small benefit. But here you still have to pay the stipend, and I don’t think you can ask her to “make up” the hours.

Honestly I think all you can hope for is that she feels bad about it, she understands how her actions affected your life/career/health and when she’s better she tries to really help out and make your life easier to “make up” for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our au pair tested positive for COVID after spending several nights out with friends. Obviously she is quarantined to her room for the next week and I am stuck taking leave to cover child care. We are a very cautious family and haven’t had to deal with this yet. How are other families handling this situation?

Sorry to hear. There’s the tested positive thread, where my family asked the same thing. I’d recommend reading that. Ask her to wear a mask around your kid from now on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our au pair tested positive for COVID after spending several nights out with friends. Obviously she is quarantined to her room for the next week and I am stuck taking leave to cover child care. We are a very cautious family and haven’t had to deal with this yet. How are other families handling this situation?

We make it clear that au pairs not engage in high risk behavior.

[Anonymous]

Covid is like the flu if you are vaccinated. Carry on as normal. Your au pairs social life should not be curtailed anymore than it has been already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Covid is like the flu if you are vaccinated. Carry on as normal. Your au pairs social life should not be curtailed anymore than it has been already.

not entirely true. can still transmit, especially with omicron. but i do get your need to be the cool host family

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Covid is like the flu if you are vaccinated. Carry on as normal. Your au pairs social life should not be curtailed anymore than it has been already.

I’m 3.5 weeks in with omicron, vaccinated and yet in er yesterday. Most are just getting cold symptoms, but some still have bad cases.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Covid is like the flu if you are vaccinated. Carry on as normal. Your au pairs social life should not be curtailed anymore than it has been already.

If you live in a home with children too young to be vaccinated, like most aupairs, you will need to be covid-cautious so you don't catch and spread it to the children you have agreed to be responsible for. If I have to explain this, you are truly not cut out to be an aupair or a host family.

to OP, you quarantine your au pair for 5 days from the start of her symptoms and then carry on as normal. If/when it happens again, you decide if she's worth the risk to your family by having her as your au pair. On our au pair's second bout of covid19 in a year, we decided she wasn't and rematched.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Covid is like the flu if you are vaccinated. Carry on as normal. Your au pairs social life should not be curtailed anymore than it has been already.

Wow..your mindset is the reason Covid is spreading like crazy. An au pair’s social life is at the bottom of the priority list. They chose to come to the US during the pandemic on NIE. Limit being around friends like everyone else and don’t give COVID to my unvaccinated kid or we will rematch. You have no idea what the long term impacts of Covid are. Lots of kids are ending up in the hospital. Watch the news.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Covid is like the flu if you are vaccinated. Carry on as normal. Your au pairs social life should not be curtailed anymore than it has been already.

What a stupid comment from you. A typical AP with such a very poor judgment. Run away host families, from people like her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Covid is like the flu if you are vaccinated. Carry on as normal. Your au pairs social life should not be curtailed anymore than it has been already.

Wow..your mindset is the reason Covid is spreading like crazy. An au pair’s social life is at the bottom of the priority list. They chose to come to the US during the pandemic on NIE. Limit being around friends like everyone else and don’t give COVID to my unvaccinated kid or we will rematch. You have no idea what the long term impacts of Covid are. Lots of kids are ending up in the hospital. Watch the news.

This is exactly why we broke our NIE match. Too many red flags after we invited her to be our AP.

[Anonymous]

I’d like to point out that if AP infects my kids they miss even more school. I’m really hoping to avoid that after everything.