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[quote=Anonymous]We have had several Au-pairs (5) over the years and started with Pro Au Pair - we felt that someone with a degree and older would be better and at the end of our experience, they were just average. When they had their Au pair friends over we had the chance to evaluate the Au pairs of the different agencies. We found many of them to be educated as well, and didn't have a chip on their shoulder thinking that they were superior (as we found with the Pro Au Pair). We had some fantastic Au pairs that really made our lives better and they also enjoyed themselves. In fact one of our past Au pairs asked if she could visit after being gone for 2 years, she told us that it was the best year of her life, we traveled with her and also took her on vacations, she was like an older sister and had a good work ethic and was caring with the kids. But the Au pairs that we have had since her have been disasters. We have many low windows in our house and if you don't wipe the kids hands after meals, they touch the windows and dirty them, when I asked her to clean them, she told me I don't do windows??? She was educated in Germany as a school teacher completed 4 years of University, so I was hopeful. Turned out, she hated children. She was nice to my one child, but cold and harsh with the older one, this caused all sorts of problems. My husband didn't see this, and I was furious, as I would come home from work, the kids weren't fed, everything was dirty and she would just sit with them in their playroom and not speak to them. What she did do well, text, respond to multiple Instagram at once, lying, reply to the Au pairs that she connected with on social media and to use the car for road trips (we had a 60 mile radius, and 11:00 pm curfew on our car). Breaking point was when her one contacts from Tinder showed up at our home and final straw when she was showering with this guy she just met a few weeks earlier in our home.....We are now Au Pairless and happy! We went to care.com and are using a series of older 30-40 years old (that aren't glued to their cell phones) babysitters that have experience and take the task seriously. Finding good quality childcare in the US is NOT easy and you can't just throw money at it, that doesn't guarantee anything. you need to watch them, work from home when you can, network, ask others who they know and check references. This is critical, we learned you cant outsource this.[/quote]

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