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[quote=Anonymous]We’ve hosted 4 au pairs for successful years. Our first was a personality dud, we struggled through the year as she was good with the kids, but we basically didn’t interact with her much. Our next 3 were a much better fit for our family, and we had an especially good relationship with our most recent who just left. Our newest au pair arrived Friday. Her English is either much weaker than she led us to believe, or she’s shy about using it. We speak her native language fluently so we’ve also tried to reach her in her language, thinking it might make her feel more comfortable. No dice. 
She’s very withdrawn, only coming out of her room when she’s working. She has a friend who is an au pair in a town @40 mins away and they saw each other on Sunday. Yesterday she came down right before her scheduled time and started crying and said she was feeling very sad. I comforted her and tried to help, but she basically closed off after a few minutes and left again to her room. She came back in time to work, and was with 2 of my ids for a while in the afternoon but it was difficult to tell how it went. Today she spent all day in her room and when I left to pick up my older kids, leaving her the the youngest, she was just kind of awkwardly standing there while my son was upset I was leaving. I kept encouraging her to engage him but she was just very awkward. We are supposed to all eat dinner together tonight and I could use some advice as to what to say to get her to open up a bit. [/quote]

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