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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thoughts about your au pair taking your 3yo shopping while on duty?  Like shopping for her because she has big plans tonight. As far as I know, this is the first time she's done this. She didn't ask - my 3yo told me. [/quote]

I guess in my mind, it would depend if this was a 5 minute stop to pick up eyeliner at the CVS or her dragging your toddler through every store in the mall for 3 hours while she finds the perfect outfit.  If it's the former, I wouldn't make a big deal of it.  If it was the latter, I would sit her down and explain that she has her off-duty hours to do this sort of thing and she can't use her work hours for her personal needs. Did DC complain about it or just mention it as "this is what we did today"?  I tend to take my kids' leads in deciding to limit certain types of BS behavior.  For instance, one AP would take them to the YMCA (we had a family membership) and drop them in the kids' zone (free childcare for members) while she worked out for 30 minutes.  I thought it was complete BS (I'm not really paying her to exercise,) but let it go because the kids loved the kid zone and it was the only time they got to go there (I never used the Y gym) and she never let the time go longer than that.[/quote]

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