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[quote=Anonymous]My friend crashed three cars within four weeks.

Car #1 wasn't her mistake. She was stopped at a red light, the guy behind her just crashed into her, car was totalled.
Host parents bought a totally new au pair car.
A week later she ran into a boulder (!) when backing out of their driveway. A boulder that had been sitting there forever (and that she knew about). She just "forgot".
Car got repaired.
A week later she kind of did not notice that there was other traffic on the road when she needed to make a left turn. Unfortunately some one going streight couln't stop in time and hit the passenger side. Fortunately nobody got hurt. Car was totalled.

She was not allowed to drive again. She didn't understand why.

My host family went into rematch with the au pair that they picked two years after me.
Because of a) not picking up the second oldest from baseball practice after school and leaving home without making sure he was somewhere safe (coffee with a friend was more important) and b) for leaving the babies (1 & 3) in the living room unattended while she was in her room on the phone (she didn't even notice host mom coming home for lunch).

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As for "worst experiences" from the au pair side...

One of my friends left her host family (no idea why she ever matched with them) because the kids were professional contestants at beauty pageants. All she was allowed to do with the girls was curl their hair and work on their "talents". She hated it.

One of my friends had to complete a list of activities with her kids, a List with a capital L. They had five compulsory activities they had to do every week: zoo, science museum, art museum, library, park. They were allowed to chose when they did what but all five had to be done every week. If the weather was bad and they hadn't been to the park Monday though Thursday they HAD to go on Friday. She got yelled at if she didn't. No idea why she stayed with the family... especially as they made her do household chores like washing the floors (on her knees, with a sponge) and washing all kids toys with bleach in the bath tub once a week (which didn't only ruin some of her clothes but the skin on her hands as well).

One of my friends, again no idea why she didn't go into rematch, jumped between her host children when the older son (14) was beating up his little sister (10) with a belt. That was right before he threatened them with a knife and said he would kill them.

One of my friends is just now leaving her (non US) host family (after giving four weeks notice, she has the patience of a Saint) because she is working 60 hour weeks while mom is home (not work from home but stay at home). Local au pair regulations don't allow more than 30 hrs of childcare per week.

My worst experience? My host mom shrunk my favorite socks. They were light blue and had yellow rubber ducks on them. Oh I loved those socks. They fit the 1 year old when she was done with them.
Oh and I left my (European) host family because the son hit me when he didn't get what he wanted and instead of talking to me barked at me (that went on for four weeks, he kicked me when I barked back at him and told me it was rude to bark at people). Host parents were fine with it and really didn't see where he needed to be talked to. But then again it was also okay for him to push his baby sister (1) off the couch on purpose because he wanted to sit there. But I guess that is totally normal behaviour for an 8 year old [/sarcasm][/quote]

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