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[quote=Anonymous]I think your expectations of what skills an au pair will have are very high and not realistic compared with what you actually get. Not one of my au pairs knew how to do laundry-- I had to teach them every. little. thing. None of them ever cleaned the lint screen in the dryer, even when I explained that it's a fire hazard to not clean it. One stuffed the washer full of clothes very tightly packed in, and couldn't figure out why the clothes weren't getting clean. I would never let any of them do the grocery shopping, because they would inevitably come back with the wrong kind of peanut butter that my kids won't eat, or the $20 maple syrup instead of the cheap pancake syrup my kids are used to. It's your money, so they're not going to care what anything costs. They all say they can cook, but that might mean they can microwave instant mac and cheese if you're lucky (language barriers mean that some of them can't read the directions to do things like that). And because they are from another country, you will have to teach them things that anyone who grew up in the US would know, like how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

All the agencies are pretty bad and dishonest, and none of them really do any screening of candidates (that's on you). Cultural Care is the worst, in my experience (but APIA wasn't really much better).[/quote]

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