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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe your kids are used to being are for by a professional nanny. This is not hating an the au pair program, it's just that maybe your kids are used to a more attentive caregiver and they don't like this new situation. Aupairs aren't in it for the childcare, they want the US experience.[/quote]

Sigh. This is not true for all, even most, APs.  My current AP adores my daughter and is a total rock star. She goes above and beyond and the child care is just as much a part of her experience as the "US experience" as you call it.   My child loves her, and has loved our prior APs as well.  She will be in our lives forever, and I'm thrilled to consider her like family.

I've had live out sitters and nannies too, and my APs have all been as good, if not better, caregivers as the nannies/sitters (and I also loved my sitters).  I was home for 3 years with my child before going back to work, and during that time I saw PLENTY of "professional nannies" ignoring the kids at the park, looking bored and disengaged, as they gossiped to one another.  There are good caregivers of all kinds, and bad caregivers of all kinds.

It astounds me what a broad brush you use when painting your inaccurate picture of the AP program.

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