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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]technically, an au pair should not be babysitting other kids. if they are driving another child, and that child's parent is not in the car, the au pair would be babysitting.  this is not allowed. people need to figure out their own childcare and stop trying to let others do the work for them.[/quote]

I would not ask our au pair to drive other children. However we do expect our children to be able to have playdates (this is part of the point of not doing aftercare and having an au pair) and although it's technically against the rules we are very clear about this expectation in the matching process. (Fwiw we are sticklers with regard to literally every other rule.) We are on au pair #4 and all have liked this arrangment--at our kids' ages (6 and 10) having a playdate makes less work for her as the kids are occupied, and also because the kids get invited back to their playmates' houses. It helps that we would not inflict a poorly behaved child on her.  If having an au pair meant depriving our kids of a social life we'd exist the program, full stop. [/quote]

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