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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was an AP a few years ago. I would come up at 7.45am as requested. The kids were having breakfast (made by their mom) and I said hello and started my own breakfast ...
What else do you expect me to do if kids are having their own breakfast ...
One morning, I saw that she was annoyed by that and honestly I truly felt bad ... So I stopped having breakfast and would have it after dropping the kids off to school.

No need to say this family never did any effort to treat me as family. It doesn't take long to have breakfast, maybe 8-10 minutes ... Depending on the age of the kids, you can perfectly have it with them.

I truly felt I was left out ...

It would have been different if she had asked me to come up lets say 15 min before. I was never working the full 45 hours anyway, I don't see where the problem was.

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For me it might depend on the age of the kids. My kids are young so when they are eating I am refilling milk cups, cleaning up spills, getting the 1 year old things broken up into small bits. The only way it would bother me is if I still had to be "on duty" when I needed to be leaving for work, if the au pair was eating instead of doing these things. If the kids are self sufficient, it wouldn't bother me at all unless there's other things that should be done (packing lunches, etc.).[/quote]

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