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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When our kids were napping, we asked the AP to do laundry during that time.  When the kids are awake, I rather have her engage them then fold laundry.

I also have to say that out of the 5 APs we had, only 1 did an acceptable job cooking and only 1 did the laundry appropriately.  It is kind of sad what (or what not) young women are taught today.  And I don't mean this only applies to women but I only had female APs.  Anybody should be able to do laundry and have basic cooking abilities, those are life skills.[/quote]

We have had APs for 8 years, and most of our APs haven't been great at laundry or cooking.  Both tasks, however, fall into my 80/20 rule.  If I am happy with their work 80% of the time, I try to let go the 20% I am not happy with.  Fortunately, most of our APs have been fabulous or at least good with our children, good drivers, and basically responsible people -- enough that these constitute 80%.  In these cases, I buy a lot of Trader Joes heat-up meals or else leave food to warm up and call it good on the cooking, and I do a lot of sorting/resorting of laundry when DD's shirts end up in DS's drawer and DS's socks end up in DD's drawer.  We've been in the program long enough to know that you don't get 100% of what you want.  If I'm happy 80% of the time, though, I consider our family lucky and act and appreciate accordingly (I do the same with DH, too, which is why we are very happily married but I absolutely never expect him to put away one piece of laundry).

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