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[quote=Anonymous]We asked our AP not to take outside babysitting jobs. The main reason for this was that we had been really clear during interviews that we have variable work and social schedules and wanted an AP who would be available on short notice when needed for evenings and weekends. We balanced this inconvenience by never using all of our hours, never keeping her from her allowed time off, and having pretty liberal grocery/food spending and car policies (until she crashed the car in a hit & run, but that's another story for another day).

I also didn't want to get into a situation where someone else offered her a regular babysitting job and she resented being asked to stay home, or had to cancel last minute because we had something come up.

Not to mention that another family is basically profiting off the money the host family paid to facilitate the AP's time in the US. We didn't pay thousands of dollars so other families could pay her $5-$10 less per hour than they would pay an American.[/quote]

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