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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would have hated that kind of schedule when I was an Au Pair.

[b]Two hours to get ready in the morning is way too much.
If shower is taken at night and backpack is ready as well, then you only have to get up, get dressed and have breakfast.
It won't hurt anyone to have the children sleep a little more and have the AP start later.

Then in the evening, the mother or father is home and you still need the Au Pair. That's not fun to work and have one parent around[/b].[/quote]

It's not up to the AP to set the family's schedule.  I'd start looking, OP.   [/quote]

Nanny here.  While I agree with the thought that it’s not up to the AP to dictate the schedule, many parents don’t set the schedule according to kid needs.  Many, many kids do better with an hour between waking and going out the door, especially as they hit late Elementary and middle school, because the circadian rhythms shift.  However, many parents try to keep the kids on the same early schedule set when the kids were in preschool.

In this instance, we don’t know whether OP’s kids are early risers or getting up to alarms.  FWIW, I have three charges.  The youngest gets up sometime between 4:30 and 5:30, middle between 5 and 6, but the oldest needs an alarm to get up by 6:30.  All of them are out the door by 7:45, but the sleep schedules are so different that I am present from 5 until we go.  I’ve seen the same situation with most families, riddlers and preschoolers up long before dawn, and kids gradually sleeping longer as they age and the circadian rhythm shifts.[/quote]

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