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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here - just now checking back in.  This is my fourth year of hosting an AP.  She was driving our car.  We had taken the car seat out so a friend could take our son somewhere and hadn't put it back yet.  This should not have been a concern as there was no need for her to be driving anywhere.  I guess she was running late to pick up my son at school and decided to drive.  (School is only a few blocks away and we generally expect her to walk to/from school.)  She not only drove him home without a car seat, she also drove past our house to go run an errand in the neighborhood.  She did not mention this to us, our son did.

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While she was absolutely wrong, so were you.  Car seat should have been installed.  [/quote]

We move car seats around all thr time and our AuPair of average intelligence and basic common sense puts the seat in the car before driving.

If an AP cant manage to adapt to this situation, she needs to return home and start fresh on the fry machine.
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OP put her AP in a lose/lose situation: Be late for pick up, or take the car without a car seat (or take the car and realize once there that you are missing the car seat?). This should be easily avoided by having a seat in all cars used to transport the children. Of course this could have been avoided if AP were early for pick up- but that is something that could happen to any of us and being 'almost late'  or even late by a few minutes does not endanger anyone.

I think this is a prime example that we should not jump to conclusion. We often hear only parts of the story (from either side) and make the other party appear like a monster.[/quote]

So was her extra unscheduled errand as critical as the pick up scenario you protray?

Sometimes you just get one as dumb as a box of rocks.  This is one example. Time to go.[/quote]

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