Reply to Safety issues with Au Pair

Forum Index » Au Pair Discussion

Reply to "Safety issues with Au Pair"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]As a host mom, I always wonder about these situations.  Mostly I wonder, "how badly did the host family handle this that they are now worried about retribution?".  If you have a thief, drug user, or something of that nature-- that is one thing.  But IMO the basic rule is that you (the host family) need to house the au pair during rematch.   Not the LCC.  The LCC is there to bail you out in the very rare truly bad circumstance that you have a really bad egg on your hands.  Not simply because you've decided to move on.   I get that this is uncomfortable...  But there really is no reason to believe that your basic average AP (who didn't work out) is suddenly going to start beating your kids or destroying your stuff simply because you're in rematch.  At least not if you have treated her respectfully through the rematching process.

I have rematched twice in my 6 years with the program.  The first time was the AP's decision.  The second was mine.  I think all of this would go a lot better if Host Families would recognize that there are lots of APs out there who may be bad APs-- but that doesn't make them bad people.  When I see posts like this one, I always wonder if the Host Family has lost sight of this.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics