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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We take our AP skiing, disney or hawaii every year.  We just factor in the cost of the program.  Plus it is always cool to see their reaction to those places....you know they will remember it![/quote]

That’s a personal choice likely because you have the bandwidth and the budget to treat the AP more kind a traveling guest or one of your family in the sense that you choose to take more responsibility personally (more like an exchange student), but that is not the norm.  Most people have AP’s for the reciprocity of childcare support in exchange for a US home base and cultural exchange doesn’f mean taking on the responsibility and expense of their American adventure.[/quote]

We also take our APs on our vacations, partly for another set of hands and partly because I like them and think it’s fun to show them places they’ve not been before.  It is more of a “family member” or “exchange student” mindset and definitely because we have the budget to do it.  We get plenty of time as a family through the year (weekends at home and also long weekends away to when AP is traveling elsewhere or opts not to join) and my kids have really liked each of the APs we’ve had and I think would be a little sad if they didn’t come on a fun trip.  Generally we chose an AP because we wanted to do things like this, otherwise we’d have a nanny or do aftercare.[/quote]

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