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[quote=Anonymous]Our third AP has been with us for 6 months. She was never fantastic, but after she made friends it became very clear to us that she's too immature to treat being an AP like a job and would be trying to get out of or complaining subtly about working. Honestly she's fine with the kids - I think they really like her. But suffice it to say that she does the bare minimum, is always complaining about being too tired, etc. she works 25 hours a week. She has no chores.

I fault myself a lot because I don't think I was clear in my expectations in the beginning and I definitely didn't address my concerns. As they arose. Instead Let things go so she probably thought I was ok with them. We had a talk this week about some things but she had an answer to everything and her immaturity became even more clear.

I'm not sure what to do. She's very nice and we have 6 months left. But her laziness and inability to put the kids' needs first during the few hours she works every day is driving me slowly insane. I can see it getting to a point three month from now where I just snap. I'm somewhat counting on other host moms to get where I am right now mentally on this. It is so so stressful to be worrying that your kids aren't well taken care of and to not feel like you know what to do about it.

Any suggestions?  She's just not going to be a great AP and is going to take continued micromanaging for the rest of the year. Just deal with it?  Try to talk to her more and make her understand?  [/quote]

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