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[quote=Anonymous]It's a great point to be careful of what your hear about other host families.  A lot of what I hear my AP's friends complain could be totally different than the perspective they are seeing.  Our au pair seems to think we "never" let her use our shared car.  The reality?  Sometimes on Saturday or Sunday during the daytime hours we say no because we have to run errands.  We've never a single time said no to any other time she's asked (and it's available to her all day while we're at work too).

One of her friends whines that she has to work on weekends.  I asked her what her schedule is and if it's different from the terms on which she matched.  She works 20 hours a week (nowhere close to the 45 APs can work for) - picks the kids up from school and plays with them at the park for a couple hours.  And yes, she does work 5 hours or so almost every weekend.  The same schedule she agreed to when she matched.

Totally get that sometimes people just want to whine (believe me - I do that about my own job!).  But remember the reality might be vastly different.  All host families seem to be really nice and flexible on same aspects, and have particular rules or negatives in others.  Hopefully it balances out.  Not always, of course, but I've found that most of the au pairs dwelling on the negatives aren't remembering all the good things about their host families or all the things they do for them.[/quote]

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