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[quote=Anonymous]Two additional suggestions, learned from recent aupairmom threads:

1) Ask an AP candidate, "When you are sick, do you take medications?  Does this include antibiotics if a doctor prescribes them?"  There is an AP on aupairmom who was told to take antibiotics for whooping cough and who refused saying that any medicine is against her religion.

2) Rather than asking "do you eat everything or are you a picky eater?" describe to the AP candidate how YOUR FAMILY normally eats and ask her to talk about the differences in how she normally eats and what she would need to make your diet work for her.  When APs check "I eat everything" on the application, in most cases, they really think they do, becasue they eat everything that their mothers or grandmothers or community tend to put on the table.  We learned through a few APs that this meant, in their experienes, heavy on the meat and no fresh vegetables at all.  We have now learned to describe in great details some of our common go-to dinners (we  eat with the seasons and cook largely from an organic CSA), and we talk with our APs about what additional they would want (meat added?  if so, what kind of meat?  do you eat pasta at every meal and would you want that added?  rice?).  This has helped enormously and we have had few food-related issues since.[/quote]

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