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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP who suggested planning a short trip while they are gone.  I am curious....how is it possible to devise 45 hours worth of child related tasks with no child around?  We've managed together to come up with maybe 10 in the past but 45?

And to say she's lucky they aren't requiring her to take this as a vacation week after only being there a month?  Not the way we would treat a new au pair.

I would still take this as an opportunity to have an open conversation with her host mom.[/quote]

I'm the PP whom I think you're referring to.  We have never asked our APs to work at all when we are away but don't take them, but I know from reading aupairmom that LOTS of HFs do.  Absolutely everything to do with the children - including cleaning their rooms, cleaning all toys, etc - is fair game.  Again, not that we do it, but one COULD do it and it would still be within the spirit of the program.  I don't know how one could get to 45 hours, but I remember one HF listing all the things she asked of her AP - I think it was posted here as well - and that sure added up to close to 10 hours a day.

And yes, it is ALSO within the spirit of the program that the HF picks one week of vacation and the AP picks the other.  Again, WE don't do this - our APs pick both their weeks, and in fact they always get additional weeks off when we go away but don't take our AP (our APs usually go away themselves the week we do, because we give them lots of notice - so they end up with four or five weeks off, not the two required).  [b]But it would absolutely be within the HF's rights to say "this is your week off,"and indeed, the AP should be happy that they are not saying this.  Not saying that this is the right way to treat an AP - we would never do it - but a HF could easily and be well within the requirements of [/b]the program.

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+1 on this because it goes both ways. I had an AP take the 5th week here off. Our rule is she chooses one and we choose the other. She chose that week and we had to deal with it. [/quote]

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