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[quote=Anonymous]I have posted before that I am terrible with rematch and have had to rematch again both times I picked rematch APs.  But one transition we had that was very effective and could be similar to yours is that we welcomed an extension AP who was coming from a different family.

I would say that the best advice I got from our LCC was NOT to think she knew all about au pairing for OUR family, just because she had been a successful AP her first year, but to train her just as I would someone coming from out of country.  So we went through the handbook just as thoroughly, I offered to help with bank account and classes just as I would do with a newbie, and I also went out of my way to help the children adjust to her and her to adjust to the children, just as I would with someone fresh off the plane.

One thing that I worried about was whether there would be things that she had liked about her previous situation that we didn't do or weren't offering, and this did nag at me at first. It was helpful, finally, to just outright tell her that if there were these things, that I welcomed her to tell me so that I could be aware of them.... and that if it were something easy to do or get or offer, I would.  She didn't in the end every ask for us to do or get anything, but this went a long way toward building explicit good will, and it also saved me from wondering and angsting over comparisons between us and her previous HF (whom she had liked but had wanted a change of location).

Good luck with your new AP![/quote]

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