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[quote=Anonymous]I'd encourage you to start out interviewing a range of ages - as long as the candidates meet your other criteria for childcare experience, driving, and lifestyle/personality match. I did interview several APs in their mid/late 20s and found that for a lot of them, our rules simply would not work. We're not okay with overnight BFs and we don't keep alcohol in the house - the older APs were polite about it but clearly not thrilled. They've had their own apartment for years and at this point in their life, aren't going to adjust well to having to return to a family with house rules like that. I wouldn't have done well with that kind of adjustment at age 24 either. We would have been fine with an older AP if it had been a good fit, and we actually started out only wanting to consider older ones because we thought age = maturity, but in the interview process, we found that wasn't always the case. [/quote]
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