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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good thing I don’t have to prove myself to you then, hon. [/quote]

Right, but no one here believes. Your story makes no sense nor does the lie that you are watching someone's kids for free (you are working illegally and getting paid) or the BS that you will get changed to student (will never happy). Good luck on your fictive journey![/quote]

I am not watching ''someone's kid'' for free, I am watching my former host kid, who I have looked after since he was 3 months old, for FREE because I rarely see him due to living in another city now. Do former APs who come visit you (if any!) charge you for spending time with your kids? or they do it for free because they actually want to spend time with them? I am not gonna charge my former host family to spend time with a kid that I love and only get to see about once a month now. Lovely of you to pay any former AP everytime they spend time with your children though. It must be awfully hard living your life with the amount of paranoia and distrust you seem to experience.

Here is an insight into my ''fantasy world/fictive journey'' that somehow seem to match the reality I describe:
 
https://ibb.co/28F0nkd

https://ibb.co/zh1NMXF

I have removed anything too identifying out of respect, not that they would care (I am close to all of my host families and I don't say anything they don't already know) but you might want to give your head a wobble and realize that because some things are things you haven't experienced or wouldn't do, doesn't necessarily mean they are untrue.

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I am a HM and I believe your AP story. I recognize some of your posts and you sound like you are a great AP. When I was a first time HM, for our first trip, my AP didn't have a real schedule because we didn't have a schedule either lol, but now I know they appreciate having some kind of schedule during the vacation and I do my best to give them one but we are very flexible and will accommodate AP's needs. I also understand not wanting to go to the same boring place every weekend. I also believe there are AirBnb with no TV (at least a few years ago I stayed in one). Anyway just my 2 cents :-)[/quote]

THANK YOU. Not that I have anything to prove to anybody but I am a recurrent poster and whilst I am an AP I am not an AP apologist, I don’t believe AP should get superior treatment (I wasn’t even if favor of the AP law-suit though I do agree there should be a change in rates depending on states and number of children/hours) but I do think they deserve consideration (same as anybody else).

I have been the first AP for all of my host families, which has really good sides but also some bad sides because it means the families are often figuring stuff out and the lines between the concept of what’s appropriate to ask a family member to do vs an Au pair can easily get blurry and sometimes crossed. I am glad you realized what works best for your AP (I agree having a rough schedule even if it needs adjustment down the line is often best.) You sound like a very considerate family, that’s awesome and I hope you are enjoying the AP experience!

As for some people not believing Airbnb with no TV exist when they live in a country where children can be left living in the streets and people still die from treatable illnesses due to lack of healthcare, I don’t think I have enough eye rolls to spare. Must be nice living in a world where lack of transportation and a house without TV are a shock to one’s system and something unfathomable, it must be nice to be so privileged as to never having had to experience such things and therefore feeling so entitled to negate this may even occurs. What a life it must be ;)

Thanks for the kind words pp, appreciated! :) [/quote]

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