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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yep, we provide our AP a smartphone (as do most host families).  We just added the phone to our family plan- so maybe $40/month.  We direct her not to use her phone for international calls.  She is to use Skype.

[b]Only male APs are allowed to visit our house, usually as part of an AP group coming over.  but otherwise, no boys in our house.  and certainly no "romantic sleepovers"  AP's must request a friend to sleep over in advance. I trust the AP group, but there is a higher level of scrutiny if a friend is not an AP.  I basically treat her like I would if she was my 20yo daughter, with regard to safety. [/quote][/b]

9:25 here, and this is absolutely the case with us - we are only as relaxed as we are about guests because all of them (in our going on 9 years of hosting) have been APs.  We would not be this relaxed about non-APs.

I also want to say thank you to 12:10 about being open to male APs coming over.  We have found that we do most of the hosting in our house (and have set up our playroom accordingly, with a big screen TV, DVD, sectional couch, etc) because our male APs are not allowed in so many other APs' houses that in order for them to join the group, they pretty much have to host the gatherings.  It's nice for them (and for us too) when the AP group can got to someone else's house for a change too.[/quote]

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