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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Obviously every family gives what they can, but I was under the assumption that bonuses were the norm, especially since these girls make such little money and provide such critical support. We pay the $200 via direct deposit and then give $500 for birthday & Christmas and then another $1000 at the start of their travel month. We then do the standard thing as you must in thr suburbs of having an AP car and then covering her gas, she gets a CC loaded with $250/mo for her personal incidentals, so she can buy whatever food she wants above what I buy and gas and whatever personals she needs.

The talk of a $20 monthly bonus for a "stellar" job and a an "exciting" $200 annual bonus quit shocking considering what these you people do for us and how little they are paid.[/quote]

There is no way you are a HM. If you were, you would not be referring to adult women and men as "these girls."[/quote]

Sorry to disappoint. My APS have been 18/19yr olds. They are girls to me. They need quite a lot of guidance and support.[/quote]

I posted about the "girls."  Yes, I am absolutely a host mom and I can tell you that my APs are definitely girls.  They are 19 year olds who do need a lot of guidance and support.  While they do act like adults in lots of ways and have a significant role in running my household, a lot of that is "stepping up" while on duty.  And they do a great job of it.  I also spend a lot of my effort as a host mom helping them to grow up and think and act as adults in certain situations where they may not have needed to do so prior to becoming an AP.  While they are off-duty, its a completely different story!  They are (and act like) teenage girls - sleeping late, messy rooms and bathrooms, buying bags of cookies and candy and eating it all in their rooms, going to the mall with their friends, chasing boys, texting incessantly, etc.  Sounds like girl behavior to me![/quote]

Wow, it sounds to me like you're not doing a very good job of screening and interviewing your AP candidates. None of my APs has been like you describe -- yes, they've been under 20, but way, way more responsible and certainly not bingeing on sweets, leaving their rooms or bathrooms a giant mess, or chasing boys.

I am in the camp of the exact amount gets automatically transferred. This is not a living wage and doesn't have to be because APs are getting all room and board covered. We also give our AP an iPhone with unlimited calling/texting, free use of the car and subsidized gas, she's working way fewer than 45 hours a week, and we take her with us all the time on trips, out to dinner, and to the movies. We spend plenty more than the extra $5 a week on her and I am not going to feel a minute's guilt over not rounding up. Hell, my organization doesn't round up my biweekly paychecks, as nice as that would be for me.[/quote]

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