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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Part of the family means hand the au pair a ton of perks but don't expect them to lift a finger around the house[/quote]

You seem to have a very myopic view of "part of the family".

These :roll: AuPairs :roll: are :roll: not :roll: your :roll: housekeepers :roll: [/quote]

Even our 11 year old takes a turn taking the trash out weekly. I think the point is that if you would do a chore in your home with your own family, you can do the same chore in the home in this country without nit picking it against au pair responsibilities.  Do you see that the dog has tipped over her food bowl? Maybe help sweep it up since you are the only one home for the next 9 hours instead of laying a dish towel over it and pointing to it when your host parent comes home from a 10 hour day.

Things like that. Not scrubbing floors. Being kind and responsible and "part of the family".

And I totally agree that hanging with the kids on the weekend or with the host parents on a friday night sounds awful. I don't really want to hang out and entertain a 20 year old either. I think that being there for graduation parties or birthday parties/holidays, etc is a very nice thing to do and the family will only be more welcoming to an aupair who genuinely wants to get to know them this way instead of one who checks out at 5pm with their bag in hand.  It seems like the ones who spend zero time with our family have been the ones who ask for sponsorship for a student visa or perks that they see others getting. The ones who spend time with us and get to know us are the ones we offer these things to without much thought.

That's a hard concept for a young adult to understand sometimes. [/quote]

Interesting.

And yet we have HP who pay for twice weekly house cleaning... but not the AP area.
HP who think because they pay for weekly or biweekly cleaning, AP should do all the “touch up” vacuuming, dusting, dishes, laundry in between.
APs who are solely responsible for the pets, trash and recycling, household laundry, etc.[/quote]

Not paying for AP area for housecleaning is just petty.  I want my entire house cleaned. [/quote]

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