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[quote=Anonymous]I'm the OP of that thread, and OP, your post has so little to do with mine, I wonder if you even read my post?  My "endless complaints" were that "she's rude and unappreciative, not great with the kids, and focused almost entirely on her social life to the exclusion of all else."  As a person who holds her profession in high regards, I would think you would be upset when a fellow childcare provider acts the way I briefly described, not defending her right to ignore my children (e.g. found out she was on her cell phone constantly texting when my kids both separately complained she was ignoring them) all while happily accepting her compensation.  If I were that bad of a host, I would have rematched with her long ago, but she's having a fun year, she's young and immature, and we survived by way lowering our standards and by not signing up for the program again.

OP, there are bad host families and MBs and bad au pairs and nannies. Sometimes they are mismatched (bad family/good nanny or vice versa) I'm not understanding why we can't operate under the assumption here that people taking the time to post mean well and truly want advice and constructive criticism. I wish we could at least begin from a point where we assume the person is doing their best and wants to be a good employer/employee. We could be helpful to each other and offer suggestions and advice for other ways of thinking.

If you have a suggestion for me, I'd love to hear it. But if you're going to question every statement I make with regards to my situation (how we treat her, what we pay for, what we ask her to do, etc), then how do you want me to react?  [/quote]

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