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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With just 5 weeks of experience?  Is that the norm for gap year Europeans?[/quote]

I'm the OP. We have a child with SN, so in particular, I try to find applicants with some kind of SN experience.  That said, we have had a few APs - including this BP's brother - who had very little childcare experience.  What they did have was experience WORKING (getting up early, having to be at a job for hours).  Nearly all of our APs and BPs, for whatever reason, have come from single-mother-run homes, and their backgrounds have not been easy.  They have had to work on weekends....summers...mornings...and look after themselves and their siblings, even while going for their Arbiters.  We have found that this combo - smart, savvy, eager to do a great job, and knowing what is actually "hard" (and driving an elementary school child around, overseeing his HW, and making him some basic meals is not that, even with his SN and all)-- is what we want in an AP, much more than years of experience as an assistant in a school or something like that.[/quote]

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