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[quote=Anonymous]   When my mother immigrated, she worked as a domestic worker for a doctor's wife, the contract lasted a bit less than 3 years. She always held this family in very high esteem.
    Many who immigrated during my mother's time; when one was lucky enough to work for a good family, with decent pay....One worked right into the next generation.
    I sincerely hope that you get an employee that is worthy of you. I worked as a mother's helper/nanny, received a ceramic item the first year, a necklace the next.... Maybe a small gift basket with toiletries, or a nice  bouquet of flowers....Maybe [to your discretion] a gift for every year of service.
  
   I feel that a decent employer should be treated decently, and if they are lucky enough to hire someone that is dedicated, and looks after their kids...Here are some tips...

-Your friends: Your Aupair works for you, and from time to time, it's not a problem if their babysitter gets sick, however, they should not think that they can just  dump their kids on your Aupair, or borrow her to clean.

One of my employers had friends whose children I could not stand, and that is the honest truth...There are a lot of options these days, not to mention nanny/aupair poaching.

My Mother was of the "old school":cooking, cleaning[full dinner service], ironing, childcare....One of her employers had a friend who tried to convince her that it was not necessary to hire a housekeeper full time, and that this hard working professional[the employer] could batch cook, and inferred that she and her child could "eat the same thing "for a week".

To the child's credit, my mother literally raised that child; it was the child who convinced her mother that she did not want my mother to go.

Believe it or not, now that my mother is old, some her former employers still call. Do you know why?...Many[new hires] do not want to clean toilets, they do not want to cook...They want to do "light cleaning"
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