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"no one has a hard time understanding that you want cheap "flexible" childcare. what people don't understand is why you think you're entitled to this. and then you complain that she isn't a "rockstar" (gag) who lives to serve you "

15:09 here.  Actually, I never wrote the word "cheap".  You inserted that.  This is my point.  I deal with the cost of the AP program which is NOT cheap (especially for those of us with school age kids who max at maybe 25 hours per week!).  The reason I deal with the financial costs as well as the mental and physical costs of hosting a foreign young woman who needs a lot of my time and attention for things outside of childcare IS FOR THE FLEXIBLE 25 HOURS OF CHILDCARE.  That is what I receive in return, so yes, my work trumps her underwater basket weaving class. And for the record, we do have a rockstar AP, who also needs a lot of daily help from me to navigate her social life, traveling, classes, driving, bank, taxes, healthcare system, etc, etc.  AP "serves" childcare as you seem to want to describe it, AND believe me, I "serve" her a lot of  "life help" in return.  There are stressful days that I would gladly pay APs more money if it meant that I got a day off from being her USA concierge!!![/quote]

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