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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She’s not doing her job. You have her scheduled to work until 8. It’s her job to be working until you dismiss her, regardless of what each person is doing. Start reminding her that she is “on” until 8, and review the evening timeline, including the specific tasks you want her to do.

And former French ap, you know what you know from your experience, but in our half-French family we fully expect our au pair to be involved in bedtime if that is what we schedule her for. Our au pairs routinely work until 8-8:30 with our family, usually supervising dinner, bathing and getting ready for bed with our 3 kids while I either clean up dinner or start making dinner for myself and my husband. Then I will usually go up to finish up bedtime, read to the kids, etc., at which point I dismiss au pair and thank her for the day. We’ve hosted 5 French au pairs and none of them has indicated that this is challenging for them. [/quote]

Former French AP here.
I get what you say and I did the bedtime routine when I was an Au Pair. The parents were home and I knew I was on until 9.30pm every night.
It was not natural to me but I did it anyway. I was just trying to help OP understand why her AP is not helping.
Which is not ok, we can all agree on that :)[/quote]

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