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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You have a fully mediocre to crappy AP. There is better as well as worse (downright abusive). If this is not working for you in terms of what you expected, rematch and let her go. You do not need to put up with mediocre for the whole year. Many first time families feel like a black cloud is lifted after a mediocre AP is gone and resolve to never put up with it again.

Your AP has a nice gig. Many of us restrict car use or refuse to pay for gas because APs abuse the privilege and drive 500mi in a weekend staying local by driving their 4 best friends around everywhere.

2 kids is NOTHING to go out to the library, especially when the younger one is only 9mo. Your AP should get stuck with a family with 3 kids: 2, 4, and 6 and see how "difficult" it is. [/quote]

+1.  She needs to go into rematch.  YOu sound like it's a great gig.  She is acting like a princess.[/quote]

+1.  My family does have 3 kids 3, 5 and 7!  And we're not in a super-fun urban area.  It is all chaos all the time.  Our family is great and our APs know it, especially after seeing their AP friends' HF situations.  Yet we still get excellent APs because we screen hard and let the only lackluster one go.  We could have let her stay but as soon as she walked out the door we were so happy.  Her replacement was one our best APs, who we actually still see since she got married and is 3 hours away by car.

I am part of a HF FB group.  You can email me jenrmyers@gmail.com and I can explain how to add you.  I saw a couple of others on this forum asking about FB HF groups, you can email me too.

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