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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Could you elucidate on your “level of expectations” so we can assess for reasonableness. Could you further indicate wat emotional support you are providing for AP in these troubled times? [/quote]

Actually this may be helpful, lol. As far as level of expectations, we'd prefer, for instance, for her to sweep when the little one makes a mess eating and things get on the floor. We'd like laundry to be done more frequently so the kids always have clean clothes to wear. When she makes a meal for herself or the children, I'd like her to clean up after herself so I don't have to do it. When she brings her trash up, I'd prefer it to go in the outside bin as opposed to the kitchen trash (especially when it's already full). Maybe I need to determine the things that drive me "most crazy" lol and start there.

This is in the handbook, that we have gone over, but this au pair has seemed fairly miserable since arriving. I've talked to her and had the LCC talk to her and she assures us this is just how she is. Maybe she is homesick or depressed though, she'll still call home between 5-10 times a day. Again, we had a plan to rematch as soon as our gap childcare arrived mid March, but pandemic (a former AP was coming to visit for a few weeks and was going to help us during the transition). I have asked if she wanted to go home during the pandemic but she'd prefer to stay here.

We had a serious conversation about a week or two after her arrival because I would ask her to do things, and not only would she not, she'd sometimes do the opposite. I don't know if it's language or personality.
I still see this sometimes but when she first came it was constant, big things to small. (For example, a small thing- I was teaching her how to make microwave popcorn because she had never done it and she was refusing to open the microwave when I told her to, numerous times, arguing with me because she didn't think the popcorn was done. How various appliances worked, she would argue with me about. A big thing- everyday the routine is my children go to their nearby cousins house after school, they also have an AP, the children all play for 1-2 hours. AP just wouldn't go.) [/quote]

One thing: Maybe she doesn't want to go to the cousins because she doesn't want to get sick? Aren't we all supposed to stay home theses days?[/quote]

Maybe the other AP is not nice. Did you even ask her? [/quote]

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