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[quote=Anonymous]We have had 5 au pairs.  We have provided all our au pairs with a basic clamshell or similar basic phone with unlimited voice, text and data.  Up until this, our current au pair, this has always been received with gratitude and has not been a problem.  Our most recent au pair, however, bought herself an iphone within a week of her arrival, bought her own plan and has become a texting, skyping, facebooking addict.  We have told her she must not use the phone during work hours and she agreed to this, but she is having a very hard time actually doing it.  Although she has said she told her friends that she is not available, she says they reach out to her anyway , making it difficult to ignore the phone.  I have told her to use the phone we gave her  would buy more minutes for it and leave her iphone in her room until she is off duty.  I don't even want her to text me...I'm not a fan of texting and prefer phone calls to communicate.  I have told her this explicitly and repeatedly, but she has never called me with a question or an update, to check in, etc. Her attitude, tone and body language suggest that she thinks that I am being ridiculous in expecting her to restrict her iphone use so much and to use the phone as an actual phone.   and that I am out of touch with her generation.  I feel like badly because I never had to treat my APs like children in the way before.  Is it the generation and this is just the battle we will all be fighting with everyone of this generation from now on or do I just  have a "bad apple (user)"

How do I handle an AP who is addicted to her phone?

BTW, it is a problem for her off duty, IMO, b/c even after 5 months here, she is still so constantly 'connected' to home she hasn't really created a life here.  I have pointed this out, gently, but feel its not my place to force the issue off duty.  She says she is happy here, so...[/quote]

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