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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Listen to your kids, especially if their stories corroborate that the au pair is mean to one of them.  My kids told me the same thing and I told them to suck it up.  It is one of my great regrets in life.

If I were you I'd be tempted to try to find a way to send this au pair home early, if only to show your kids that you respect them and believe in them and prioritize them.  This just isn't right.[/quote]

Agree.  My only caveat is to make sure that you are satisfied that it's not a situation where the word "mean" is being used loosely -- sometimes kids use that word to apply to a situation they generally don't like, but it's not a case of someone being "mean"  (i.e. before she was old enough to really understand what "mean" means, my daughter used to tell me I was "mean" if I gave her a consequence for bad behavior, or said no to something she wanted.... she didn't have the words to articulate it otherwise, so reverted to "mean" to express her displeasure with regular parenting stuff).  If you are satisfied that it's not something like this (and you can ask yourself what you yourself have seen when the AP interactions with them -- my guess is that your gut knows), PP is right.  Side with your kids.

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