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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What did you expect? Don't au pairs tell you they come here for a CULTURAL exchange? Sorry, but your tot doesn't qualify as such. 
Oh just get a new one and hope for better luck next time. Your kid will eventually get used to the fact these girls keep coming and going. Does your pediatrician think this is a good idea for your child at this age? Sorry if you who find my vent offensive. I feel so sorry for these poor children with such little stability in their young lives.[/quote]

PP, your rage is really misplaced.  Au pairs come here for a "childcare and cultural exchange program" where "your au pair lives with you as a member of the family while providing up to 45 hours of childcare each week."  I could go on quoting from Cultural Care about the childcare aspect, but you get the point.  Even the au pair websites marketed to au pairs themselves have "childcare program" written all over them.  See here for an example: http://www.culturalcare.co.uk/being-an-au-pair-/.  If a young foreign adult wants to come to the US, but doesn't want to take care of kids, there are other better-suited programs available.  As it is, au pairs are childcare providers.  So what do I expect?  I expect them to take responsible care of my child.

I'm also not sure what you think the au pair program is in terms of "girls coming and going" (oops - hope the "don't refer to au pairs as girls" poster doesn't swing by to yell at you!).  Most au pairs stay for one or two years with their host family.  In daycare, kids switch classrooms every year or two also, and probably teachers more frequently than that.  I know very few nannies who stay with a family for longer than a year or two.  And by the time they are school-aged, kids most definitely get a new teacher each year.  So I presume that you feel strongly that the only option that offers "stability in their young lives" is when one parent stays home with their kids.  If that's what you think, fine, you're entitled to your opinion, but don't act like the au pair program exclusively involves a rotating host of "girls."

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