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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ours is leaving July 30th and we are exiting the program. She has been interviewing and many are offering a true hourly wage (10 seems standard) and a signing bonus. She definitely does not want the DC area. Competition between families is fierce. She is down to 2 families.  One in Florida and one in Colorado. Both are offering dedicated car, nice living quarters and a signing bonus of $2500.

I advise her to milk them for as much as she can. There are so many families looking. We are giving her the glowing reference she deserves.[/quote]

Gross. You are horrible. [/quote]

I am not the pp but horrible why? If you get a new job wouldn’t you negotiate the highest pay you can have with the biggest perks? There is nothing horrible about negotiating a high pay and extra perks. Too few women fight for higher pay brackets so good on that AP and excellent advice from the PP.  Families who can’t and won’t pay won’t hire her or will find alternative childcare. [/quote]

Totes, screw all these idiot parents who dared to reproduce. Screw the pandemic! Milk those effers! A moral compass is for the weak...[/quote]

You realize that APs aren't a charity and that APs aren't the only childcare option, right? Nobody is forcing families to offer more money than the $195.75 required by the Department of State and if they chose to start to offer $2000 a month to get an AP, it means they are both willing and financially capable of doing so. An AP who is offered $$$$ to do a job she would normally be paid much lower to do would be crazy to refuse.

You are purposefully being dramatic in your writing which makes you come across as quite a nightmare hf honestly, but even then. Nobody is saying parents are idiots who dared to reproduce. BUT yes, ultimately parents ARE responsible for their kids, and if they can't find APs they like or can currently afford, it's up to them to find alternatives or accept the fact that they might make arrangements with their work so they can look after them themselves.

When you sign up to be a parent you accept that you might sometimes struggle to find alternative childcare and might have to look after your own kids.

Again if someone offered me $$$$$ to do the same job I do with extra perks on top of that, I would go for it, no questions asked. Nothing to do with a moral compass. The AP finished her year with her current host family, she has a brilliant recommendation from her HF, she isn't leaving anyone in the lursh and she obviously is quite wanted. Nobody in their right mind would advice her to not take the best package she can find that suits her, she is in a position to negotiate and I very much hope she does.  Would you tell your daughter to take a job that pays minimum wage when another company that suits just as well offer triple the pay and advantages? Or do you only have that ''moral compass'' when it comes to APs?

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