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[quote=Anonymous]Hi everyone. We are a first time host family (got in at beginning of pandemic) and in general we are very lucky to have an au pair who is good with our kids, mature, and ok to live with. She does one thing that drives me effing batty but at this point I am not sure it’s worth it to address since she is leaving soon and we still have a bit of desperation in child care needs so she continues to have a lot of power in the relationship (eg she could just go home since she’s vaccinated and covid rules suck). Here’s what she does: if she joins us for dinner which I cook or buy, she hangs in the kitchen with me WHILE I CLEAN. I’ve started just going upstairs with the kitchen dirty so she will leave because it is so maddening! I don’t expect her to be a cleaner but we all live here and if people are cleaning you should too. She will do what I ask if I say something like “can you hand me DD’s cup” or “can you pick up those socks by you” but she doesn’t keep going from there. It drives me insane. I want her to want to hang out with us but she is also very lazy and only does what we explicitly ask. I think if asked to help clean she would just not eat with us. She does help when it’s a “fancy” meal, aka holidays. For au pair #2 we have a lot of changes to make it how we set expectations... [/quote]

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